Stanimir Tzankov Quotes & Sayings

The next moment she feared lest this answer to his blessing might be irreverent, wrong - might hurt him as coming from his daughter, and she threw her arms round his neck. He held her to him for a minute or two. She heard him murmur to himself, 'The martyrs and confessors had even more pain to bear - I will not shrink. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. — Walter A. McDougall

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. — John C. Maxwell

You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane. — John Salley

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy. — Rebecca Solnit

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such
an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their
absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack
of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us
an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.
Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of
beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the
whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly
we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the
play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder
of the spectacle enthralls us. — Oscar Wilde

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE! — Tupac Shakur

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. — Sivamani

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. — Samuel Johnson

Time has a way of returning all heedlessness to those who commit it ... even if they are Divine. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book. — Beverly Cleary

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi

An admission of extreme otherness, — Hanya Yanagihara