Astrid Heeren Quotes & Sayings

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. — Sophocles

His tragic flaw is that he is a walking tragedy, and his smile makes me feel alive. — Hannah Moskowitz

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move. — Diane Ackerman

It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No ... never again ... — Ken Kesey

It will be you - -you who urge us on to battle you who incite us against ourselves you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler you who would have one man who works kill another man who works you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives. — Dalton Trumbo

The weeks I'd spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side - that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures - was the equivalent of a forward nod of the head, meaning Yes. — Gregory David Roberts

These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic. Useful to you, gentlemen, but no longer so to us here. If you want the truth - I know I presume - you must look into the technology of these matters. Even into the hearts of certain molecules - it is they after all which dictate temperatures, pressures, rates of flow, costs, profits, the shapes of towers ... '
'You must ask two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control? — Thomas Pynchon