Troska Mn Quotes & Sayings

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. — Karl Marlantes

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W.G. Sebald

I do to others what they do to me, only worse. — Jimmy Hoffa

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. 'What did they do to you?'
Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. 'They'-he looks about the Chapel-'cured me. They cured me of a terrible wasting disease called mortality. There's a lot of it about. The young hold out for a time, but eventually even the hardiest patient gets reduced to a desiccated embryo, a Strudlebug ... a veined, scrawny, dribbling ... bone clock, whose face betrays how very, very little time they have left. — David Mitchell

The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence. — Jurgen Moltmann

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age. — Aldous Huxley

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. — Ayn Rand

Holiness is actually the true health of the person. — J.I. Packer

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited. — Oswald Chambers

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it. — Zadie Smith

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties. — Stanley Hoffmann