Alraune 1952 Quotes & Sayings

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick DeWitt

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq. — Richard Engel

If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with. — James L. Cambias

When we will learn to use our love as a currency to buy the peace, peace will be there. — Debasish Mridha

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! — Leo Tolstoy

No one wants to suffer, and yet nearly everyone seeks out pain and sacrifice, and then they feel justified, pure, deserving of the respect of their children, husbands, neighbors, God. Don't let's think about that now; all you need to know is that what makes the world go round is not the search for pleasure, but the renunciation of all that is important. — Paulo Coelho

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Delight,
top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. — Herman Melville

I am so sorry. I'm more sorry than I've ever been in my life. I don't mind being on restriction and having to clean the school. I can even live with the fact that everybody's mad at me, but I hate that I hurt you."
"Do you love this guy?"
"No! He means nothing. The kiss meant nothing."
Tristan looked me straight in the eyes, his stare pinning me to the ground. "That makes it worse, you know. I know you think that somehow it will make me feel better, but it doesn't. You threw away everything, and it wasn't even for someone that mattered. — Eileen Cook

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. — Charles Baudelaire

All readers have reading in common. — Will Schwalbe