Jeden Den Quotes

#1. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story

Richard Yates

#2. I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

Rosanne Cash

#3. Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Dalai Lama

#4. We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

Howard Zinn

#5. The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.

Michael Jackson

#7. There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#8. Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.

Ludwig Erhard

#9. Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity ...

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#10. Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

Jedidiah Jenkins

#11. Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

Thiruvalluvar

#12. It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Zora Neale Hurston