Slav Kova 15 Praha 2 Quotes & Sayings

He'd fallen in love with her instead. And whether she realized it or not, because of his love for her, she owned him as much as he owned her. — Tiffany Reisz

Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book. — Susanna Kearsley

I steeled myself. I would start from scratch. I would root out like weeds the effects of my parents, the tendency to choose safe options, to get ahead, to feel secure... and when I met other Asian Americans, those bound for consultant and hedge-fund jobs where they would make six figures, my judgment was harsh. Silently, through my narrowed eyes, I told them, I know you, and there's not too much to know. — Michelle Kuo

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. — Joan Didion

She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar. — Mary Shelley

The intellectual love of a thing consists in understanding its perfections. — Baruch Spinoza

Aren't these the finest treasures? Each one springs up, and becomes more red than rubies, more fine than diamonds adn more valuable, so we are told; and before you can run back here again to look, the petals have begin to drop and the leaves to yellow. Look, they sag, they fall. Are they the more wonderful because they live such a short time. — Gregory Maguire

When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself. — John Lukacs