Stanislav Szukalski Quotes & Sayings

The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka ... [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer ... [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex
all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch. — Steve Donoghue

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor. — John Simon

Don't strive for perfection. There are so many changes you can make, there are so many tips you can choose to incorporate--start with ones that aren't going to diminish joy. — Sophia Ruan Gushee

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. — W.B.Yeats

Fatherhood is sacred. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures. — Trinny Woodall

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict. — Stephen Kinzer

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964. — Jerry Seinfeld

Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that. — Debasish Mridha

I'm looking for a God so otherworldly that the mind of man simply could not have authored or concocted this God because this God is God, and we are not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character. — Luc Ferrari

If you wonder why you choose to worship other gods rather than wholeheartedly devote yourself to the Lord you love, examine the thought and desires that captivate your heart. That's where you'll fin the answer to every sin and failure in your life. Don't be deceived into thinking that you need to develop more willpower. We need to develop godly thoughts and desires. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him. — Eddie Long

The unexpected and unpredictable is real. — Nisargadatta Maharaj