Abdruck Set Quotes & Sayings

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. — Mitch Daniels

Let us be reminded that it is hard to feel overwhelmed when you are in familiar territory. It is easy to be overwhelmed when you are on unfamiliar ground no one wants to traverse. — Kevin P. Ryan

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. — Joaquin Miller

I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye ... although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry! — Iain Dowie

(It is interesting that the words "cosmos" and "cosmetic" have the same root, the Greek word for "adornment" or "arrangement.") — Jim Holt

The day is bright and sparkling, so beautifully alive. It's amazing how sunshine can clear away the doubts than night brings. — Karina Halle

I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin. — Mervyn Peake

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors. — Frederic William Farrar

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them. — Tite Kubo

A simple dream, set in a city park, along an avenue of mature elms, whose overarching branches turned the avenue into a green tunnel into which the sky and the sunlight were dripping, here and there, through the perfect imperfections in the canopy of leaves. — Salman Rushdie