Svoboden Dux Quotes & Sayings

[S]elfless action, action done while free of a sense of self. Action in which you don't see yourself as separate from other things. — Steve Hagen

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress. — John Adams

If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it. — Joyce Meyer

Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more. — James Kenneth Stephen

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. — Pete Hamill

He had known a great deal about her before she knew he had any real interest in her, and that was just the way Tom wanted it. He had been looking for someone like Beverly Marsh all his life, and he moved in with the speed of a lion making a run at a slow antelope. Not that her vulnerability showed on the surface - you looked and saw a gorgeous woman, slim but abundantly stacked. — Stephen King

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In — Marian Keyes

Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface! — George MacDonald

It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble — Alexander McCall Smith

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth. — Mabel Robinson