Adelbert Quotes & Sayings

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

In pain is a new time born. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. — David Chang

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both. — Martin McGuinness

Lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. — J.D. Salinger

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron? — Adelbert Von Chamisso

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. — Carol Moseley Braun

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Experiments recently conducted by Merle Lawrence (Princeton) and Adelbert Ames (Dartmouth) in the latter's psychology laboratory at Hanover, N.H., prove that what you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look. Since what we believe to be the "real" physical world is actually only an "assumptive" world, it is not surprising that these experiments prove that what appears to be solid reality is actually the result of "expectations" or "assumptions. — Neville Goddard

You're not going to college to get educated. You're going there to get trained. They'll train you to want what you don't need. They'll train you to manipulate words so they don't mean anything anymore. They'll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They'll train you so good, you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit. They'll give you a corner office and invite you to fancy dinners, and tell you you're a credit to your race. Until you want to actually start running things, and then they'll yank on your chain and let you know that you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you're a nigger just the same. — Barack Obama

I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style. — Ovid

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. — J.D. Salinger

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. — Lyall Watson

Prepare yourself, I'm taking bread out of the oven.
Don't tease me, woman ... zucchini? Cranberry orange.
Mmmm ... No woman has ever done breakfast bread foreplay the way you do. — Alice Clayton

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I lit a candle in a Catholic church for the first time that afternoon. Me, a Presbyterian. I lit a candle in the warm, dark, waxy-smelling air of Saint Adelbert's. I put it beside the one that Mrs. Baker lit. I don't know what she prayed for, but I prayed that no atomic bomb would ever drop on Camillo Junior High or the Quaker meetinghouse or the old jail or Temple Emmanuel or Hicks Park or Saint Paul's Episcopal School or Saint Adelbert's. I prayed for Lieutenant Baker, missing in action somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam near Khesanh. I prayed for Danny Hupfer, sweating it out in Hebrew school right then. I prayed for my sister, driving in a yellow bug toward California - or maybe she was there already, trying to find herself. And I hoped that it was okay to pray for a bunch of things with one candle. — Gary D. Schmidt

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow. — Adelbert Von Chamisso