Szirtes Krisztian Quotes & Sayings

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. — John Piper

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man ... — Joanna Baillie

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant? — Neal Stephenson

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. — Oprah Winfrey

Breathing is optional, but I need some air. — Isaac Marion

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. — C.S. Lewis

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it. — Cormac McCarthy

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. — Dick Cavett

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.
There is my desert. — Edmond Jabes

Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense. — Deborah Harkness

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation. — Kwame Nkrumah

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life. — Herman Cain

Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young. — Kendrick Lamar

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. — J.K. Rowling

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected. — Chanakya