Gotovac Quotes

#1. Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

Doug Wilson

#3. Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Larry Kramer

#4. Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

Adolf Hitler

#6. The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life.

Rod Dreher

#7. What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

Richard Attias

#8. There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and loansome, reminding her, somehow, of home. This is the one, she thought to herself.

Kristin Cashore

#9. PaTri thought I feared the darkness for it's own sake, because of what the darkness might hide. But that wasn't my problem at all. It was what the darkness revealed that terrified me.
It's not that I can't see in the dark. It's that I can.

Daniel Schwabauer

#10. Because it's not the things we write about that define us. It's the things we fear writing about.

Eden Connor

#11. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Tacitus

#12. They were seduced by their own technology.

Michael Crichton

#13. It is not necessary to live,
But to carve our names beyond that point,
This is necessary.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

#14. No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.

Cokie Roberts

#15. I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Carson McCullers