Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011

https://citaty.net/

“The eye… the point where a person's identity is concentrated.”

Milan Kundera book Identity

Identity (1998), pg 63

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

On temptation - "'ATTRIBUTING THE SATELLITES SUCCESS TO ME IS BLASPHEMY' – T.B. JOSHUA" http://www.modernghana.com/print/247180/1/attributing-the-satellites-success-to-me-is-blasph.html Modern Ghana (November 4 2009)

“In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die.”

Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician

Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Context: In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”

George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island

Act II
Source: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

“We are born not with purpose, but with potential.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 1 (p. 1)

“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 82)

“Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.”

Octavia E. Butler Wild Seed

Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”

Octavia E. Butler book Imago

Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)

“Intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.”

Octavia E. Butler book Dawn

Dawn

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Variant: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Source: Parable of the Talents

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”

Octavia E. Butler Fledgling

Source: Fledgling

“A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.”

Octavia E. Butler book Mind of My Mind

Source: Mind of My Mind (1977), Chapter 5 (p. 344)

“I don't worry too much about the choices I've made. When my days are over I'll have to answer for everything I've done. I don't grieve in any way about bad consequences for things I've done in my life.”

Lawrence Taylor (1959) All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker, Pro Football Hall of Fame member

in 1999 before he was inducted in the Hall of Fame.

“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”

Billie Holiday book Lady Sings the Blues

Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.

“I've been your slave
Ever since I've been your babe
But before I be your dog
I'll see you in your grave.”

Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter

Billie's Blues

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