Top 26 Quotes About Hasek

#1. People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

Noah Cicero

#2. Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

Jaroslav Hasek

#3. I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Cassandra Clare

#4. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.

Jaroslav Hasek

#5. If you decide to challenge your destiny, your opponent would not be some judgemental Lord Almighty who is seeking to punish you; your opponent would only be the limitations of your own mind. This will empower you to fight your fate.

Amish Tripathi

#6. I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Charles Olson

#7. Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.

David Berlinski

#8. I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

Newt Gingrich

#9. I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work which was done by Joseph Heller and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H) and Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk - which I haven't read, but have heard was funny).

Dave Abrams

#10. And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

Jaroslav Hasek

#11. I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.

Patrick Kane

#12. Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Immanuel Kant

#13. Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

Zentatsu Richard Baker

#14. Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have

Dominik Hasek

#15. Austria's victory crawled out of her latrines.

Jaroslav Hasek

#16. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

Jaroslav Hasek

#17. I try to have fun. Sometimes I have more fun, sometimes I have less fun. But overall I still believe that this team can do it without me and when I'll be ready, I'll be ready.

Dominik Hasek

#18. The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.

Jaroslav Hasek

#20. If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

Wayne Gretzky

#21. Great times call for great men.

Jaroslav Hasek

#22. After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Jaroslav Hasek

#23. I'm not retiring.

Mel Tillis

#24. War demanded valour even in pilfering.

Jaroslav Hasek

#25. Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

Jaroslav Hasek

#26. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.

Jaroslav Hasek

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