Anstrengungen Quotes & Sayings

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater ... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. — Martin Luther King Jr.

All I know about the Jews is what my grandfather taught me. "They are the most godless people," he used to say. "They start off from the idea that good must happen here, not beyond the grave. Therefore, they work only for the conquest of this world. — Umberto Eco

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. — Giles Gilbert Scott

Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget. — Walter Alvarez

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods. — David Brian

I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long. — Peter Saul

When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible. — Nina Guilbeau

When in doubt, flatter the ego. — Jessica Clare

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. — Khaled Hosseini

Painting is ... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself ... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art. — Milton Resnick

I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt. — Etgar Keret

The power of Orden predates the star shift. — Terry Goodkind

There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies. — Joan Bassington-French

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. — David Byrne