Mikulcova Kulturidtka Quotes

#1. Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. Cow - Tanith Low

Derek Landy

#3. There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Salman Rushdie

#4. It was not in Raj Lyubov's nature to think, "What can I do?" Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other men's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Joanne Harris

#6. If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.

Emil Cioran

#7. America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#8. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#9. Acted like a king to be treated like one.

Robert Greene

#10. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

Mary Jo Putney

#11. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.

Dick Durbin

#12. Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.

Emily Thorne

#13. ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

Sebastiao Salgado

#14. Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bryce Courtenay