Jaroslava Pokorn Quotes

#1. You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

Andrew Lennon

#2. We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Susie Bright

#4. Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline; you shall only live to remember the last lesson.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

Freddy Adu

#6. Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

A.S.A Harrison

#7. Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. People destroy what they love.

Paulo Coelho

#10. What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

Florence Welch

#12. For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Donna Tartt