Sroka O Quotes & Sayings

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do. — Robert Jackson Bennett

You see, every man is a safe, a vault of secrets and longings. Now, there are those who take the brute's way, but I prefer a gentler approach- the right pressure applied at the right moment, in the right place. It's a delicate thing. — Leigh Bardugo

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down? — Eoin Colfer

I will fly to those royal birds, — Hans Christian Andersen

Like I was about to say before getting interrupted, it's a modern age. I don't need a lot of muscle to pull a trigger.'
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'Did you just shoot someone?'
'I got us hired, if that's what you're asking. — Alwyn Hamilton

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much. — Tom Golisano

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. My lifelong love affair with science — Carl Sagan

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know. — Samantha Morton

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. — Elie Wiesel

Our greatest battle will always be against ourselves, and winning that battle will be our greatest victory. — Paul G. Brodie

Always ailing though never with any specific — Elizabeth Goudge

We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered. — Catherynne M Valente

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be
expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have
been far more impressed by the bad manners of par-
ents to children than by those of children to parents.
Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family
meals where the father or mother treated their
grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered
to any other young people, would simply have termi-
nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat-
ters which the children understand and their elders
don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions,
ridicule of things the young take seriously some-
times of their religion insulting references to their
friends, all provide an easy answer to the question
"Why are they always out? Why do they like every
house better than their home?" Who does not prefer
civility to barbarism? — C.S. Lewis

Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. — Charles Baxter