Marek Hlasko Quotes

#1. The door swooshed open. A tiny woman in a purple miniskirt, red boots, and a black T-shirt that read STAND BACK - I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE walked through. Miriam Shephard had arrived.

Deborah Harkness

#2. Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

Mark Vonnegut

#3. people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the old hymns have degenerated into songs that exalt us above the glory of our Creator. Despite our pretensions, our pride grows

Matt Boswell

#4. The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

Marek Hlasko

#5. Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.

Colin Firth

#6. A writer without his country is nothing.

Marek Hlasko

#7. I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

Marek Hlasko

#8. It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

Michel Foucault

#9. Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel

#10. I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

Ahmed Rashid

#11. I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Marek Hlasko

#12. Logan had been there earlier and refused to leave, but Mason made him go. He wanted alone time with me when I woke. He said he pulled Boyfriend Rank. It would've been nice to see Logan, but I understood.

Tijan

#13. At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

Marek Hlasko

#14. Courage is not the absence of fear

Richard Stengel

#15. Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

Eli Wallach

#16. When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wrong from time to time, unless we're saints, which we aren't.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. A song on the radio can bring back the past with fierce (if mercifully transitory) immediacy: a first kiss, a good time with your buddies, or an unhappy life-passage.

Stephen King

#18. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

Dana Stabenow

#19. I cut each potato into four pieces, making sure each piece had at least two eyes. The eyes are where they sprout from. I let them sit for a few hours to harden a bit, then planted them, well spaced apart, in the corner. Godspeed, little taters. My life depends on you.

Andy Weir

#20. New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

Zubin Mehta