Ufuk 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian world hath improved on the plan, by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust! — Thomas Paine

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist. — Bernard Goldberg

What if the longer we don't deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal? — Lauren Handel Zander

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. — Bryant Gumbel

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. — Ugo Betti

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being. — Floyd Skloot

Be patient with another's mistakes; be strict with your own. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see. — Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter

Misha had appeared chez Viktor a year before, when the zoo was giving hungry animals away to anyone able to feed them. Viktor had gone along and returned with a king penguin. Abandoned by his girlfriend the week before, he had been feeling lonely. But Misha had brought his own kind of loneliness, and the result was now two complementary lonelinesses, creating an impression more of interdependence than of amity. — Andrey Kurkov

I glance at him, wondering what kind of crazy sauce he ate to sit down next to me in here. — H.M. Ward

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough. — Sarah Dessen

I talk to the friends in my head on paper. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead. — John Buchan