All Quiet On The Western Front Chapter 5 Quotes & Sayings

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out. — Clare Balding

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not. — John Florio

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

But even moments like these can't last forever. Because sooner rather than later, the gravity of our actions catches right back up with us and all the smiles disappear. — Heather Lyons

In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that while it was an admirable agent for the inflicting of misery upon the survivor, it allowed the dead person himself to escape from all further persecution in the blessed refuge of the grave. This was not satisfactory. A way must be conceived to pursue the dead beyond the tomb.
The Deity pondered this matter during four thousand years unsuccessfully, but as soon as he came down to earth and became a Christian his mind cleared and he knew what to do. He invented hell, and proclaimed it. — Mark Twain

Don't cry for them to be happy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. — George W. Bush

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking ... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. — Edward De Bono

She was a French rose growing wild amid the hothouse flowers of London. — Sabrina Jeffries

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. — Alberto Fujimori

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.
-All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12 — Erich Maria Remarque

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast. — William Shakespeare