Straszna Historia Quotes

#1. Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

Justin Lee

#2. The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Ernest Renan

#3. The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

Samael Aun Weor

#4. I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

Chris Hardwick

#5. When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station.

Peter Jackson

#6. Photography ... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#7. I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Charles Stross

#8. In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Ruth Benedict

#9. All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

Konrad Adenauer

#10. [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

William H Gass

#11. I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

Patty Loveless

#12. Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Mahalia Jackson

#13. The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Fareed Zakaria