Smoljanovich Quotes & Sayings

Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly. — Kristina Meister

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great. — Joseph H. Greenberg

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless. — James Geary

It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view. — Dacia Maraini

Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream. — Francesco Petrarca

I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy. — Alison Mosshart

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. — Rowan Williams

True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding. — Abhijit Naskar

Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent. — Allan H. Meltzer

Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce. — Anthony Boucher