Dariusz Szpakowski Quotes

#1. People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.

Karen Thompson Walker

#4. Tell me you want to kiss me," he said. "I ... " I did, but saying it out loud was hard to do. He was handsome, nice, cared about me,

C.L.Stone

#5. Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Jane Smiley

#6. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there.
And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

Jenny Lawson

#8. Sometimes Death lurks after them for days, weeks, or even months, waiting for their time... Sometimes it doesn't, and I've often raced that omnipresent Reaper to one portion of its work.

N.B. Roberts

#9. A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

David Ricardo

#10. Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

George Pierce Baker

#11. One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

C. G. Jung

#12.
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

Oscar A. Romero

#13. If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

Andy Goldsworthy

#14. This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

Paul Gibbons