Strahinjic Bane Quotes & Sayings

Without work men are utterly undone. — Nevil Shute

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. — Abraham Maslow

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. — Lactantius

The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation. — John Hughlings Jackson

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent. — Edmund White

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find. — Shannon L. Alder

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. — Pete Earley

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. — Alan Jay Lerner

eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go. — Charles Bukowski

Don't give your heart to him, Shay," Darby says softly. "Ford won't keep it safe. No one ever kept his heart safe growing up and he doesn't know how to treat anyone any better. It's not his fault he's not a good man, but it'll be your fault if you expect him to be one. — Bijou Hunter

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence ... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion. — William Godwin

Here and there great branches had been torn away by the sheer weight of the snow, and robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves. — Kenneth Grahame