A Night In Lisbon Remarque Quotes & Sayings

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment. We don't have to be mystics or physicists to know this. Yet at the level of personal experience, we resist this basic fact. It means that life isn't always going to go our way. It means there's loss as well as gain. — Pema Chodron

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too. — Jay Kay

But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties! — Mark Batterson

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. — Mel Brooks

By day Lisbon has a naive theatrical quality that enchants and captivates, but by night it is a fairy-tale city, descending over lighted terraces to the sea, like a woman in festive garments going down to meet her dark lover. — Erich Maria Remarque

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. — Ray Bradbury

Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous. — J.D. Robb

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. — Brother Yun

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?'
Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.'
'Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one! — Steven Erikson

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random. — Steve Jobs

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. — William Gibson