Top 30 Antal Quotes
#1. If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.
Antal Szerb
#2. I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.
Solange Knowles
#3. If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens from one moment to the next; in which there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Everything else is just petty bourgeois.
Antal Szerb
#4. Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it?
Robert Holdstock
#5. The biggest secret about success is that there isn't any big secret about it, or if there is, then it's a secret from me, too. The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.
Ed Seykota
#6. Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.
Antal Szerb
#7. In ancient times, the seven seas were the Indian Ocean, the Black Sea, the Caspian see, the Adriatic Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea.
Antal Parody
#8. It is not the business of a Queen to be human.
Antal Szerb
#9. My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
Jason Statham
#10. Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
Walter Bagehot
#11. You start off as Mr X, who happens to be an engineer, and sooner or later you're just an engineer who happens to be called Mr X.
Antal Szerb
#12. In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.
Antal Szerb
#13. Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
Jack McDevitt
#14. And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen ...
Antal Szerb
#15. Nothing is more frightening than the completely inexplicable.
Antal Szerb
#16. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.
Antal Szerb
#17. I really dislike the sort of people who aren't like other people. It's true other people are so boring. But so are the ones who aren't like them.
Antal Szerb
#18. Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
Betty Dodson
#20. We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
Antal Szerb
#21. Penguin Classic, with the orange bands at the top and bottom; and the Gill Sans thirty-sixpoint title, all caps, centered and medium weight, in black on the white band in the middle. One of the designer Tschichold's prouder moments, when he finally woke the hell up and joined the twentieth century.
Chip Kidd
#22. The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of which that considerable expert Victor du Bled remarked that no other age was ever so bored.
Antal Szerb
#23. My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#24. Everyone has to find his own way to die.
Antal Szerb
#25. In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
Hafez
#26. The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.
Antal Szerb
#27. My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
Mitch Leigh
#28. The matter could in fact have been resolved quite simply if all those round the table had been equally intelligent. But in this life that is rarely given.
Antal Szerb
#29. For love, there has to be a distance across which lovers can approach one another. The approach is of course just an illusion, because love in fact separates people. Love is a polarity.
Antal Szerb
#30. The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.
Antal Szerb
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