Svejk 1 Quotes

#1. What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.

Arnold Hano

#2. 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

#3. Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

Rajneesh

#4. If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#5. I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Jewel

#6. Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Thomas Bernhard

#7. No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

Cassandra Clare

#8. As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

Jorge Ramos

#9. Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.

Lakshmi Mittal

#10. Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Jim DeMint

#11. I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

William J. Casey

#12. If you want it to be, your heart can be your biggest and most powerful muscle in your body.

Robert Cheeke

#13. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

John Burroughs

#14. There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

Emmett Shear

#15. 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

#16. To get someone to follow them, a Siren would most likely appear as that person's deepest desire. The thing they wanted most. Cole's had become me, only it wasn't me as the queen, which I assumed would've been what Cole wanted most. It wasn't even me as an Everliving.
It was me, simply as me.

Brodi Ashton

#17. 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

#18. Good taste is the death of art

Truman Capote