Univerzalno Quotes & Sayings

Metaphors are lies. — Mark Haddon

I'm the one running the show, you petulant geezer. — Brad McKinniss

You've missed it again, you've gone wrong again, you thought you had time, you thought that even someone whose days were numbered would wait for you. That's the kind of person you are, dozing while more opportunities pass you by (...) — Zeruya Shalev

Of course. Remember, I've seen you in her. And it's wonderful. — Clive Barker

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much. — Jim Carrey

What makes a book memorable is the message it etched in the readers' minds. — Tista Ray

Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it. — M.L. Stedman

To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed. — A.E. Coppard

Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter. — Gloria Furman

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry. — Nalini Singh

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Soviets were not 50% right, they were entirely wrong. They weren't
quantitatively wrong about the amount of variance due to the environment,
they were qualitatively wrong about what environmental manipulations
could do in the face of built-in universal human machinery. Having said this,
though, I now feel no particular impulse to vote Republican.
Also, it's quite possible that someday you could create perfectly unselfish
people ... if you used sufficiently advanced neurosurgery, drugs, and/or
brain-computer interfaces to engineer their brains into a new state that no
current human brain occupies. Whether or not this is in fact possible isn't
something that ideology gets to decide. The reasoning errors of past
communists can't prohibit any particular future technological advance from
being possible or practical. Having said that, I feel no particular impulse to
turn liberal. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents. — Nelson Mandela

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. — Abu Bakar Bashir