Zjawisko Quotes & Sayings

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!' — R.C. Sproul

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. — Mordecai Richler

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers. — Marshall Curry

Lots of people are born into lives that feel like a journey in the very middle of a big ship on familiar seas; they sit comfortably, crossing their legs, they know when the sun will rise and when the moon will wane, they have plans that they follow, they have a map! But then there are those of us, a few, who are born into lives that feel like standing at the very top of the ship's stern; we have to stand up, hold on tight for dear life, we never know when the waves will rock and we never know where the sun will set or when the moon will wane! Nothing follows the laws of common nature and we live in a wild, wild awakening and the only map we have is the map of the stars! We're called to see the lighting tear at the horizon, we're chosen to roar with the tempests, but we're also the first ones to see the suns rise, the first ones to watch the moons form anew! There is nothing ordinary, nothing at all. But neither are we! And we wouldn't want it any other way! — C. JoyBell C.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it. — Jeff Olson

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record. — Cyril Connolly

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. — Lee Child

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision. — Christian Kane

Allowing both negative and positive thoughts to arise in life and acknowledging them for what they are, a secondary reaction within to what is happening outside, we grant our emotions free passage within without allowing external influences to impede our personal happiness. We cannot have control over everything that occurs in life, but that is simply not the goal, for we have control only over our relationship that we have with life. — Forrest Curran

As to the people they have no understanding, and only repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them" (Protagoras, 317); to get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only necessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play (a hit, no doubt, at Aristophanes, whose comedies attacked almost every new idea). Mob-rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride; every wind of oratory stirs up the waters and deflects the course. The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy; the crowd so loves flattery, it is so "hungry for honey," that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the "protector of the people" rises to supreme power (565). — Will Durant

Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling. — Sue Limb