Sokol Quotes

He kissed me gently. 'Lieutenant Malachi Sokol, reporting for duty, Captain.' 'What?' 'I've been assigned to your field unit,' he whispered as he nuzzled my neck. Oh, man. Heaven. Help. Me. 'I'm afraid I'm already being shockingly insubordinate.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad.

Ja bas drajver. Ja nie šit klíner. You chápen?

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

saying, with a metaphoric hand wave to the future, ‘Hey,

I loved the shadows from the early morning sun as I’d walk up a vineyard row, breathing deeply at the smell of freshly worked earth, watching the hawks ride the air currents over the vineyard, and the goldfinches, bluebirds, and swallows flutter among the vines.

Catholic School–Induced Conscience (CSIC)

Without a doubt, the winery transition was the biggest challenge and toughest work of my thirty years of business. Turning control of the business into the hands of my children, I had no reservations about their ability - they were capable, energetic, and creative. It was all about my letting go.

More than 10,000 prisoners from other ethnic groups were also imprisoned in Auschwitz. These included Czechs, most of whom were members of the patriotic organization Sokol; Frenchmen and women who were political prisoners; Germans and Austrians, who were mostly political prisoners or imprisoned for common crimes; Slovenes and prisoners from virtually all European countries. There were even Jehovah’s Witnesses who were imprisoned at Auschwitz for their religious convictions, as well as homosexuals.

To a child, a year feels like a lifetime. To an old man, a lifetime feels like a year.

For white southerners, it was a “cardinal sin,” it was “harrowing,” wrote the historian Jason Sokol, “to call a black man ‘Mister’ or to shake hands with him.

I know a few Negroes I respect and admire, for they got what they wanted by working for it.” But most blacks were not quite so good, Ledford asserted. “I’ve lost my respect for them, except the few I told you about because they want to force themselves on us…. Why doesn’t the Negro leave us alone and mind his own business and quit thinking he’s too good for our laws.” The laws Ledford referred to were the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

In the cavernous hangar known as Building 254 we pull on our Sokol suits... The chest opening is then sealed through a disconcertingly low-tech process of gathering the edges of the fabric together and securing them with elastic bands... Once I got to the space station, I learned the Russians use the exact same rubber bands to seal their garbage bags in space.

Soon, we are moving, the motion lulling us into a contemplative trance. After a while, the bus slows, then comes to a stop well before the launchpad. We nod at one another, step off, and take up our positions. We’ve all undone the rubber-band seals that had been so carefully and publicly leak-checked just an hour before. I center myself in front of the right rear tire and reach into my Sokol suit. I don’t really have to pee, but it’s a tradition: When Yuri Gagarin was on his way to the launchpad for his historic first spaceflight, he asked to pull over—right about here—and peed on the right rear tire of the bus. Then he went to space and came back alive. So now we all must do the same. The tradition is so well respected that women space travelers bring a bottle of urine or water to splash on the tire rather than getting entirely out of their suits.

S tvorbou obehov a chronometráží na linkách nemám nič spoločné a ziapať na mňa je podobné ako hulákať v Tescu na pokladníčku, že zdražel pomarančový džús. Ale ako jediný zamestnanec dopravcu, s ktorým substrát prichádza do styku, som zároveň jediným dostupným hromozvodom. Aj preto vodičov niet a kopa adeptov to zabalí ešte v skúšobnej dobe. Z nejakého dôvodu ľudí nebaví nechať si nadávať kvôli veciam, za ktoré nemôžu.

Nikde tu nemáte nápis, že by sa sem nesmelo so zmrzlinou!" buráca na mňa, zatiaľ čo mi jeho nanuk kvapká na pokladňu. "Nabudúce si sem dajte nálepku!" Prehltnem prvú odpoveď, ktorá mi napadne (Nemáme ani nálepku zakazujúcu vysrať sa medzi sedadlá, aj na to sa chystáte?).

He’s Scared, She’s Scared by Steven Carter & Julia Sokol