Archaische Decke Quotes & Sayings

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. — Henry David Thoreau

More reforms will give more impetus to German industries to invest in India. German companies want to be treated on par with Indian companies, and creation of an equitable market is crucial for investments. — Angela Merkel

Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. — Laura Lippman

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson

A thing is either alive or it isn't; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it. — Donald C. Peattie

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. — Brad Thor

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation will go to war remain safely behind. The next time leaders talk of warring, all the people should get together and send those leaders to the front lines. Give them a big arena with wonderfully effective ammunition, and the war will be finished in a day — Paramahansa Yogananda

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a pink moon — Saira Viola

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word. — Shannon L. Alder

The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between an inarticulate pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life. — Peter Orner

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon
the best Mormon you can
in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way. — Chieko N. Okazaki

Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last. — Marianne Williamson