Szymanskis Northern Quotes

#1. Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

Stephen King

#2. I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

Ted Hughes

#3. The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. Not everyone knows what it is to have your father's rival's penis inches from your nose.

Ian McEwan

#5. I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

Angus Loughran

#6. These are not the banu adam you're looking for.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

Allen West

#8. Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)

Charles De Leusse

#9. I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

Casey Neistat

#10. I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Brad Bird

#11. The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

Lisa Alther

#12. Celaena didn't move. "Go to hell.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Herodotus

#14. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Shelley

#15. The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Maurice Hinchey