Good Soldier Svejk Quotes

#1. I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work which was done by Joseph Heller and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H) and Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk - which I haven't read, but have heard was funny).

Dave Abrams

#2. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

Oscar Wilde

#3. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.

Jaroslav Hasek

#4. Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#5. Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.

Ben Horowitz

#6. It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. Severine was a greedy, selfish person. She wanted everything. Right now, sitting here with Thayer, she wanted to keep this moment forever. Nothing gave her the right to desire it so much.

Calia Read

#8. Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Karen White

#9. When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

Tom Clancy