Vesely Drak Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. — Patrick DeWitt

He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow. — William A. Phillips

Tragedies might be bursts of misery, but regret was forever. — Brendan Duffy

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. — Barbra Streisand

Suffering does not discriminate. — Shania Twain

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties. — John Yoo

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. — Judy Blume

When they're good, I like working with new actors. — John C. Reilly

Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasement in order to dispense grace, who favored some and disfavored others, and who welcomed the favored into religious institutions that accumulated and hoarded privilege and protected the status quo. — Brian McLaren

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you don't change your approach than you will never change your results! — Jim Rohn

But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O. — Frank E. Peretti

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.