Stolarsky Quotes & Sayings

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. — Yann Martel

Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action -- to insure that scarce resources are employed productively rather than wastefully. — James R. Schlesinger

The real individuals of our time are the martyrs who have gone through infernos of suffering and degradation in their resistance to conquest and oppression, not the inflated personalities of popular culture, the conventional dignitaries. These unsung heroes consciously exposed their existence as individuals to the terroristic annihilation that others undergo unconsciously through the social process. The anonymous martyrs of the concentration camps are the symbols of the humanity that is striving to be born. The task of philosophy is to translate what they have done into language that will be heard, even though their finite voices have been silenced by tyranny. — Max Horkheimer

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country. — Bonnie Tyler

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. — Harper Lee

The lowliest European functionary - a border inspector, say - dressed immaculately, and furnished even a cubicle to lend an impression of respectability. A truly wealthy man, like Stolarsky, pronounced his status in paneling, burnished wood, fountain pens, leather volumes. Bruno banished the despondent thought; this baleful room was Europe's nullification. "What's the matter, I trample on your delicate sensibilities? — Jonathan Lethem

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you. — Chip Ingram

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. — Cornel West

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really. — Tom Hollander

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil ... — Pier Paolo Pasolini

He didn't know how he'd make it through the next five minutes. Or the next hour. How could he possibly go through an entire day? Then sleep and start the whole thing all over again? Despair sucked at him, an empty, yawning void that threatened to pull him down into an awful abyss. A panic-laced craziness struck him. Suffusing it all, the pain. — James Dashner

I followed Barry closely as we walked through the main doors of the hospital, down the corridor that smelt like disinfectant and false hope. — Belinda Jeffrey

Where power is not joined with faith in the future, it is used mainly to ward off the new and preserve the status quo. — Eric Hoffer

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus