Powszechny Spis Quotes & Sayings

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Richard Usborne

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night. — Brian Moore

We attach great importance to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. But if our diplomatic relations is subject to China's goodwill, we will lose the autonomy of our diplomacy. — Tsai Ing-wen

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps. — Amy Gerstler

Nothing can change the past, including thought. However, dwelling on thoughts about the past does change our experience of the Now. When we drag the past into the present, everything else that belongs to the Now is marginalized and overlooked. All we see is the past or, more accurately, our story about it. All we can ever have of the past is our story about it, and that story is very unsatisfying. Our stories about the past don't feed our soul like the Now does. And worse, any story is usually a sad tale that keeps us caught up in negative feelings, and then those feelings become our current experience of life. — Gina Lake

That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again ... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws. — Charles Duhigg

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree. — Jen McGowan

And his mother, Ursula, whom he called Fancy, — Katy Regnery

He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just as had his other experience - life among human beings. He was suffocated by both worlds. He no longer wanted to live at all. — Patrick Suskind

We are God's creations, living in God's earth, placed within God's plan of redemption. — Francis Chan

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult! — Anthony Trollope

Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle ... Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you're hearing the tale. — Matthew J. Kirby

You is smart. You is kind. You is important." She — Dena Cabrera

What is the harm in returning to the point whence you came? He will live badly who does not know how to die well. So we must first strip off the value we set on this thing and reckon the breath of life as something cheap. To quote Cicero, we hate gladiators
if they are keen to save their life by any means; we favour them if they openly show contempt for it. — Seneca.