Swierszczyki Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men on nights such as these. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. — Jef I. Richards

Twenty centuries later, Jesus speaks pointedly to the preening ascetic trapped in the fatal narcissism of spiritual perfectionism, to those of us caught up in boasting about our victories in the vineyard, to those of us fretting and flapping about our human weaknesses and character defects. The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding. All he has to do is happily accept the cookies, the gift of the kingdom.4 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning! — Apostolos Doxiadis

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised. — Ruth Ahmed