Severen Potok Quotes & Sayings

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return. — David J. Schwartz

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either. — Wesley Clark

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. — George Saintsbury

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara

However much he may tell her he loves her and thinks her beautiful, his loving gaze could never console her. Because the gaze of love is the gaze that isolates. Jean-Marc thought about the loving solitude of two old persons become invisible to other people: a sad solitude that prefigures death. No, what she needs is not a loving gaze but a flood of alien, crude, lustful looks settling on her with no good will, no discrimination, no tenderness or politeness - settling on her fatefully, inescapably. Those are the looks that sustain her within human society. The gaze of love rips her out of it. — Milan Kundera

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign! — Theophilus London

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action. — Tom Perrotta

[Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government. — Lawrence Martin

Is an artist only the one whose paintings are purchased? I think that an artist is a man who always seeks and never finds a final answer.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease. — J.C. Ryle

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices. — Robin Sharma