Amerikanische Geschichte Quotes & Sayings

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind. — Robertson Davies

Prayers without action is activity in futility. — Sunday Adelaja

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. — Marcus Aurelius

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.' — Ilka Chase

Sometimes love blinds us, other times it let's us see. — Paulo Coelho

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. — Jack Welch

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing ... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. — Jane Siberry

Those who have truly seen Christ in His glory have eyes for nothing else. — A.W. Tozer

I experienced unrequited love early. — Jane Hamilton

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner. — Slash

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. — Paul Bloom

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person. — Aristotle.

...Hand me the lava spray gun, will you? — Rick Riordan

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living. — Barbara Kingsolver

...And where's Margaret Pier? I know she's not dead, even if she's almost as old as I am and twice as stubborn."

"She said she'd never set foot inside this house again. Not after what you said the last time."

"Did I say something dreadful?"

"You said blind Republicanism like hers was an inherited social disease, like syphilis. You said it. I heard you myself. — Helen Hudson