Zemlje Evrope Quotes & Sayings

Behind every fortune there is a crime. — Honore De Balzac

Environmental historians ... insist that we have got to go ... down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them. — Donald Worster

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims. — Gore Vidal

The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe. — Lauren Willig

I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it. — Hank Stuever

Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it. — Marcus Aurelius

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. — Samuel Johnson

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. — Trevor Dunn

Sometimes, I would put down my book and look at the two of them in the light of my reading lamp. I now think I was lucky that I wasn't young. I knew what I might not have known earlier - that my happiness had come. I even told myself to fix the image of my wife and son in my mind while I watched them sleep, and it is still there, a clear picture left by my conscious wish. — Siri Hustvedt