Jaska Quotes

#1. Jaska straightened, though his whole person seemed to wilt.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#2. Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Robert Caro

#3. ... when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

Jane Austen

#4. The marriage could have been perfect right up to the end, if only one partner or the other one had managed to die peacefully just a little ahead of time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.

David Berlinski

#6. It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Albert Einstein

#7. The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

Martin Amis

#8. In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

John Calvin

#9. He was the kind of man people liked to entrust with their sadnesses.

Donna Tartt

#10. everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

Michel Foucault

#11. The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

Frederick Lenz