Terminarz Quotes & Sayings

Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest. It would have been simpler to begin at the beginning, but the beginning didn't mean much without what came after, and what came after didn't mean much without the end. — Lydia Davis

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me. — Bryan Stevenson

Wonder is the salt of the earth. — M.C. Escher

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. — Noam Chomsky

In the name of violence; offenders are only primitive henchmen. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. — Anthony Trollope

The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over. — Robert Genn

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution. — John Ashcroft

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau