Strahov Library Quotes & Sayings

Are we going to reach a point where we say LOL instead of actually laughing? — Yusra Badr

It was Kelda who said she wished there was a pool in Belvedere, because they were obviously very lucky to have a swim coach living in town. I hadn't said I was a swim coach, but I knew what she meant. It was a shame.
Then a strange thing happened. I was looking down at my shoes on the brown linoleum floor and I was thinking about how I bet this floor hadn't been washed in a million years and I suddenly felt like I was going to die. But instead of dying, I said: I can teach you how to swim. And we don't need a pool. — Miranda July

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Spiritual warfare is the term;
political correctness is the weapon. — Barry Knauer

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous. — Bill Vaughan

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood. — A.B. Simpson

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle. — Henning Mankell

This country is so stupid. Only spoiled white people could let something so good get so bad. I — Gary Shteyngart

Everyone deserves good love. — Denene Millner

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf. — Lee Kuan Yew

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again. — Swami Vivekananda

The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead. — Darren Shan

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. — Leo Buscaglia