Przychodnia Portowa Quotes & Sayings

We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did- but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don't mean this in the fatalistic sense; we're constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct. — Banana Yoshimoto

I engage and after that I see what to do. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. — Publilius Syrus

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with. — Suzette Haden Elgin

Destroying the world. That's no mean feat, if you think about it. I wonder if we should be impressed with ourselves. — Brandon Sanderson

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness. — Samuel Richardson

A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything. — Sasa Stanisic

To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You're everywhere you look, you're the standard against which everyone else is measured. You're like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a "woman doctor" or they will say they went to see "the doctor." People will tell you they have a "gay colleague" or they'll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a "Black friend," but when that same person simply mentions a "friend," everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn't have the word "woman" or "gay" or "minority" in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses "literature," "history" or "political science."
This invisibility is political. — Michael S. Kimmel

When you feel anger, it always means there is something you are not understanding. — M.G. Hawking

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4. — Audrina Patridge

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live. — Tehyi Hsieh