Chvilky 2018 Quotes

#1. What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

Jean Rhys

#2. One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Richard Bach

#3. People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#4. All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Gary Hamel

#5. There's just no substitute for the truth.

Dan Brown

#6. The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

Pete Hamill

#7. Had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.

Ayn Rand

#8. My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Vikas Swarup

#9. Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.

Megan Shepherd

#10. There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#11. The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

Sven Birkerts