Hasek Svejk Quotes

#1. 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

#2. What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

Elizabeth Chandler

#3. My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Jamais Cascio

#4. Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along ... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

John Colton

#5. 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

#6. Whoever decides to hate others has chosen to walk alone.

Robin Sacredfire

#7. Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

Reese Witherspoon

#8. Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Tony Kaye

#9. It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

#10. want you to trust me enough to tell me what's going on with you because if you can't do that then there is no point in us going any further.

Lauren Dodd

#11. Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp.

James S.A. Corey

#12. Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

Bobby Fischer

#13. Never live life in fear of death

Zayn Malik

#14. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

Susan Sontag

#15. In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene.

Tim Hunt

#16. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.

Jaroslav Hasek