Szerb Antal Quotes

#1. Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

Mitt Romney

#2. If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens from one moment to the next; in which there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Everything else is just petty bourgeois.

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#3. Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

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#4. We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Marco Rubio

#5. It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

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#6. You start off as Mr X, who happens to be an engineer, and sooner or later you're just an engineer who happens to be called Mr X.

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#7. In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

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#8. And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen ...

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#9. Nothing is more frightening than the completely inexplicable.

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#10. The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Seth Godin

#11. If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.

Antal Szerb

#12. I really dislike the sort of people who aren't like other people. It's true other people are so boring. But so are the ones who aren't like them.

Antal Szerb

#13. I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#14. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.

Antal Szerb

#15. You mean," said Arthur, "you mean you can see into my mind?"
"Yes," said Marvin.
Arthur stared in astonishment.
"And ... ?" he said.
"It amazes me how you can manage to live in anything that small.

Douglas Adams

#16. We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

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#17. The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of which that considerable expert Victor du Bled remarked that no other age was ever so bored.

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#18. Everyone has to find his own way to die.

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#19. A loss is often a win delayed. A win at times is a loss defrayed. Equanimity with either is the real crusade.

Rashid Osmani

#20. The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

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#21. It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

Veronica Roth

#22. The matter could in fact have been resolved quite simply if all those round the table had been equally intelligent. But in this life that is rarely given.

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#23. For love, there has to be a distance across which lovers can approach one another. The approach is of course just an illusion, because love in fact separates people. Love is a polarity.

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#24. Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Francois Fenelon

#25. The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.

Antal Szerb