Poezija Online Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens. — Harry Lloyd

A happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins. — Sarah Addison Allen

Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down. — Bassam Tibi

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. — John Milton

For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk. — Maria Dahvana Headley

It's not that you like being sad, but you start to see the value of it. You don't judge sadness so harshly. — Lori Lansens

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. — Rene Burri

It was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being. — James Altucher

Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. — Roger Garaudy

The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that no longer offer important work to do.
Bells destroy the past and future, rendering every interval the same as any other, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with significance. — John Taylor Gatto

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. — Ayn Rand

Many authors also attacked the widespread corruption among lawyers. In general, justice was recognized as being so unjust that, as Montaigne complained, ordinary people avoided it rather than seeking it out. He cited a local incident in which a group of peasants found a man lying stabbed and bleeding on a path. He begged them to give him water and help him to his feet, but they ran off, not daring to touch him in case they were held responsible for the attack. Montaigne had the job of talking to them after they were tracked down. "What could I say to them?" he wrote. They were right to be afraid. In another case he mentions, a gang of killers confessed to a murder for which someone had already been tried and was about to be executed. Surely this ought to mean a stay of execution? No, decided the court: that would set a dangerous precedent for overturning judgments. — Sarah Bakewell

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions — Barack Obama

The Western world may have been undergoing a steady transformation, the young may have thought they had discovered a new way of talking to each other, the old barriers were said to be crumbling from the base. But the famous 'hand on the shoulder' was still applied, perhaps less frequently, perhaps with less pressure. — Ian McEwan