Stosunek Do Otoczenia Quotes & Sayings

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe. — Dorothy L. Sayers

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson

The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo. — John Stuart Mill

I am not an African. I am an American. — Albert Murray

I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up. — Anna Sheehan

I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka. — Lewis Black

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down. — Jilly Cooper

A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries. — Scott Peters

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards. — Charlie Brooker

You change the world by changing your thought. You change the thought by changing your heart. — Debasish Mridha

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff

I don't know if it's revolutionary not to work," she had told me, "but it's better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You're yourself and you get paid for it," or so she had thought at the time, — Rachel Kushner

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again. — Kate Jacobs

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. - Joe Fox — Nora Ephron