Zalles Quotes & Sayings

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football. — Johan Cruijff

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such. — Daniel Woodrell

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. — William Shakespeare

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
-excerpt of #35 from 100 Selected Poems — E. E. Cummings

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities. — Emma Goldman

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. — Phillip Lopate

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God. — Alan Keyes

It's a cold case, you have to let me help even when you don't want to."
"Why?"
"Because I'm obsessed with cold cases."
"You have one you can't solve?"
"I have one I do not want to solve. — Rea Lidde