Samizdat B92 Quotes & Sayings

Gender equality is more successful than armed force — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston S. Churchill

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones. — Walter Bender

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. — Maya Angelou

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — John C. Bogle

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me. — John Henry Newman

A woman can be an object if that's her objective. — Brandon Tietz

He wanted it forever, too, but, it was impossible. His past, her future, neither was conducive to forever. Those outside forces that loomed, they were barriers to forever. No, forever was for simpler people and simpler times. — Sarah MacLean

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. — Jason Statham

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him. — Ayn Rand

The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character. — W. Somerset Maugham

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life. — Rachel Holmes

Little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass. His linen, though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted — Charles Dickens