Prachatice Quotes & Sayings

Sympathy, love for one's brothers, for those who love us, love for those who hate us, love for our enemies, yes, the love that God preached on Earth, which Princess Maria taught me and which I have not understood - that is what made me feel regret for life; that is what would have remained for me if my life had been spared. But now it is too late, I know it. — Leo Tolstoy

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. — Al Gore

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. — Miguel De Cervantes

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room. — Stanley R. Jaffe

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. — Edmund Hillary

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. — Vivienne Westwood

There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you. — Leon Brown

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine. — Paris Hilton

I'm sorry I made your time on this rock, this stupid little mote of dust, harder and not easier. — Ali Benjamin

I didn't have a happy childhood. — Giorgio Armani

That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion - trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion. — Sara Gruen

I'm a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of ... — Laurell K. Hamilton

The fructose intake of the average American is currently close to 3 ounces (80 grams) a day. Our parents' generation, consuming just honey on their toast, far fewer processed foods, and a normal amount of fruit, took in no more than ½ to 1 ounce (only around 16 to 24 grams) a day. — Giulia Enders