Kratka Trawnikowa Quotes

#1. Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!

Dante Alighieri

#2. Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

Carlos Slim

#3. With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

Bruce Hoffman

#4. Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.

Publilius Syrus

#5. I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.

Fidel Castro

#6. organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

Agnes Varda

#8. When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a simple body of magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically. . . .

Mark R. Levin

#9. Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object?

J.D. Robb

#10. For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

Clifford A. Pickover

#11. The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

Walter Kirn

#12. Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid ... morons not included. (Apollymi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.

Adam Haslett