Zechners Quotes & Sayings

Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him ... Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong. — Alexandre Dumas

May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho

Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come through or die. — Murray Pura

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he? — Arthur Rimbaud

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel

No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation. — James M. Lang

Don't be afraid to take bad pictures, because good pictures are the mistakes of bad pictures. — Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk. — Seth Klarman

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers. — William Law

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own. — Ani DiFranco

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. — Fisher Stevens

Space has always been confusing to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke

They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals. — Philipp Lahm

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something. — Mason Cooley

Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra