Szasza Karaoke Quotes & Sayings

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Irvin D. Yalom

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits. — Constantin Brancusi

A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade. — Janny Wurts

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together. — Joe Eszterhas

A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Doesn't nature reach her goal even though most people falsely determine the purpose of their own efforts? — Friedrich Nietzsche

I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy — Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted to be a woman, but that seemed to me to be a world to which I was to be eternally refused entrance.

What I needed was a boyfriend. A boyfriend would clarify my position to the world and, even more important, to myself. A boyfriend's acceptance of me would guide me into that strange and exotic land of frills and femininity. — Maya Angelou

She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven. — Marian Keyes

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. — Matthew Fox

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop. — Nicholson Baker