Zacsko Quotes & Sayings

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything. — Orison Swett Marden

He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener. — Ted Chiang

Your grandmother was not teaching me how to behave in class. She was teaching me how to ruthlessly interrogate the subject that elicited the most sympathy and rationalizing
myself. Here was the lesson: I was not innocent. My impulses were not filled with unfailing virtue. And feeling that I was human as anyone, this must be true for other humans. If I was not innocent, then they were not innocent. Could this mix of motivation also affect the stories they tell? The cities they built? The country they claimed as given to them by God? — Ta-Nehisi Coates

How horrible uncertainty was. How cruel. — Rose Christo

The taxpayers deserve accountability. — Byron Dorgan

If you wouldn't join in a mugging you saw taking place on a street, if you wouldn't physically attack or verbally abuse and cruelly insult an acquaintance in your school, why would you ever ridicule or hurl vicious and hurtful words at a person online? — Ben Carson

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love — Therese De Lisieux

When a wound is dirty, you have to clean it,
before it becomes more rotten.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 16, 2016
Babaji — Petra Hermans

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God. — Kim Clement

In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels." James F. Black Exxon Senior Scientist 1978 "Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate." Lee Raymond Exxon Chairman and CEO 1997 — Neela Banerjee

The music was my friend, my lover, my family. — Maya Angelou

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections. — Frederick Lenz