Wojny Burskie Quotes & Sayings

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar. — Moss Hart

All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little. — Maajid Nawaz

We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that. — Frederick Lenz

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other. — William Boyd

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not. — Willa Cather

The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it. — Glenn Greenwald

People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break. — Cam Gigandet

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? — J.K. Rowling

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking. — Michael Callahan

I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me. — R. YS Perez

The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show. — Liu Wen

It seemed to me - articulated in words of today - that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected with energy. But I also realized, with pleasure, that, as soon as she began to do this, I felt able to do the same, and I tried and it came easily. — Elena Ferrante

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Of the three, the third trait - the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment - is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The — Malcolm Gladwell