Zlatohl Vek Quotes & Sayings

It's better to make people laugh than cry. — Ronnie Barker

If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain. — Christina Hendricks

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory. — Carl Sagan

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light. — Frederick Lenz

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.' 'In withstanding of the passions standeth very peace of heart.' 'Let us set the axe to the root, that we being purged of our passions may have a peaceable mind.' To this end there must be continual self-examination. 'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening. In the morning purpose, in the evening discuss the manner, what thou hast been this day, in word, work, and thought. — Marcus Aurelius

Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on? — George Carlin

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. — Barack Obama

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. — Bernard Malamud

I do what I can with what I've got, but if I don't GET then I can't DO. — Joseph A. Coley

It's all bullshit on Everest these days. — Edmund Hillary

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish. — Harold Geneen