Putokaz 021 Quotes & Sayings

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race. — George Henry Borrow

The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had to really, really want it. — Meg Wolitzer

Never challenge anyone crazier than you. Crazy trumps skill every damn time. — Charity Parkerson

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life. — Leonard Ravenhill

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece. — Alex Turner

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation. — Robert Winston

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things. — Ross Douthat

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers

I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change ... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering ... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. — Newt Gingrich

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. — Graham Greene

But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet? — Patrick Ness

It's the simple things in life that matter. — Andy Weir

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. — Richard M. Nixon

The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are. — W. Kamau Bell