Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.


Joris-Karl Huysmans

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KARL MALONE
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'...
KARL MALONE
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE
All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE
I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
KARL MALONE
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st...
KARL MALONE
You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, b...
KARL MALONE
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know i...
KARL MALONE
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
KARL MALONE
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do ...
KARL MALONE
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have...
KARL MALONE
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the l...
KARL MALONE
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ...
KARL MALONE
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't f...
KARL MALONE
Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE
You work for whatever you get in life.
KARL MALONE
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play w...
KARL MALONE
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE
I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
KARL MALONE
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE
Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
KARL MALONE
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it....
KARL MALONE
My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
KARL MALDEN
I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every...
KARL MALDEN
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of whic...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitati...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in ...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred sl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole worl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its o...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would h...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the...
KARL LEHMANN
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of u...
KARL LEHMANN
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't ...
KARL LEHMANN
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make ou...
KARL LEHMANN
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of ...
KARL LEHMANN
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making...
KARL LEHMANN
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
KARL LEHMANN