T R Czy Szabolcs Quotes & Sayings

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. — Jonathan Sacks

A gun is more important here than the Koran. — Jameson Currier

It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates — Jorge Luis Borges

How good a predictor of job productivity is a cognitive test score compared to a job interview? Reference checks? College transcript? The answer, probably surprising to many, is that the test score is a better predictor of job performance than any other single measure. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a meta-analysis on the different predictors of job performance, as shown in the table below. — Richard J. Herrnstein

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination. — John Irving

Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ... — Mary Jane Holmes

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead ... While you do not know life, how can you know about death — Confucius

Adolescence is like cactus. — Anais Nin

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy. — Philip Zaleski

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress. — Ludwig Von Mises

My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that. — Olivia Newton-John