Zilko Travel Quotes & Sayings

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler

We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself. — Chris Hedges

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it. — Rex Smith

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur

Oh! What thing? A thing with Daemon, and if you say yes, please tell me that thing starts with an s and ends with an x." I opened my eyes and frowned. "Geez, you're worse than a dude. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus

Besides.
Eternity was going to seem like forever.
With the crowds of smiling people smiling at me in the dark, me who spent my life cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn, I told myself, why rush anything?
I'd backslid before, I'd backslide again. Practice makes perfect.
If you could call it that.
I figured, a few more sins would help round out my resume.
This is the upside of already being eternally damned.
I figured, Hell could wait. — Chuck Palahniuk

If I smile enough, maybe I can make them forget their jealousy, or hurt, or whatever is brewing behind Christina's eyes. — Veronica Roth

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon. — Brian P. Cleary

The motorcycle is a system. A real system. — Robert M. Pirsig

The towering genius is not apolitical. — Richard Brookhiser

Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration. — Ronald Reagan

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are. — Alice Walker

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird. — Richelle Mead

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. — China Mieville