Potocka Basen Quotes & Sayings

Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness. — Swami Vivekananda

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being. — Marianne Williamson

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime. — Kathleen Hanna

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall. — Len Goodman

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans. — Roberto Giobbi

Even when you act like nothing is happening, something happens - I don't know how to put it any more clearly. It's — Herman Koch

Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear: — Geoffrey Chaucer

showing Carla and Erik with Father. It had been taken a couple of years ago on a sunny day at the beach — Ken Follett

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red. — Clive Tyldesley

Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise. — Soman Chainani

Consider the iatrogenics of newspapers. They need to fill their pages every day with a set of news items - particularly those news items also dealt with by other newspapers. But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance. Newspapers should be of two-line length on some days, two hundred pages on others - in proportion with the intensity of the signal. But of course they want to make money and need to sell us junk food. And junk food is iatrogenic. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

(The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.") — Elizabeth Kolbert

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. — John Irving