Urkalovic Quotes & Sayings

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would propose that every woman has a little darkness under the surface, — Keigo Higashino

What you don't know
You can feel somehow — U2

Excerpt from Cracking the Safe:
Thus what the world calls good business is only a way
To gather up the loot, pack it, make it secure
In one convenient load for the more enterprising thieves.
Who is there, among those called smart,
Who does not spend his time amassing loot
For a bigger robber than himself? — Thomas Merton

Flannery O'Connor ... points out that 'a story really isn't good unless it successfully resists paraphrase. ...' ... Paraphrasing can force us into deeper levels of both story and self. O'Connor also says that a good story 'hangs on and expands the mind.' ... Most importantly, as we explore the largeness of stories, their 'macro' possibilities, we are forced further into the largeness of our own lives. The 'hidden' story, made visible, can be that which is most difficult to confront in our experiences and, at the same time, the story that demands to be told. — Karen Salyer McElmurray

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss. — Thomas Jefferson

The smartest cavaliers at the command 'To horse!'
contrive to be in time for both a horse and whores. — Volodymyr Knyr