Soldier Svejk Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Andrzej Wajda

#4. I don't fear anything.

Bonnie Blair

#5. It's hard enough to give fearlessly, and it's even harder to receive fearlessly.
But within that exchange lies the hardest thing of all:
To ask. Without shame.
And to accept the help that people offer.
Not to force them.
Just to let them.

Amanda Palmer

#6. I admit to being somewhat unclear on the function of human tears," she says. "So we're sad about this? Should I menace someone?

Elizabeth May

#7. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.

Rita Dove

#8. It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

Todd Strasser

#9. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

Destinee Hardwick

#10. Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Edward Kennedy

#11. Making love to a person in their sleep is the only guarantee they'll wake up with a smile on their face.

Bauvard

#12. You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.

Chelsea Clinton