Aufbruch Quotes & Sayings

I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us. — Richard Flanagan

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. — Publilius Syrus

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die. — Michael Crichton

Devote yourself to prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost all of the time and energy in Half Moon Bay was being directed toward consulting to paying clients. Those clients in turn became the sales engine for the firm, and even when we did an occasional cold call, it was the references from clients that shortened the sales cycle considerably. I'm not even sure I'd call it a sales cycle at all. — Patrick Lencioni

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. — Dorothy Parker

Words were cannibals eating up their own past.

-- Like Being Killed — Ellen Miller

You're smiling," Indie says.

"I know." I say. — Ally Condie

One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you." I made a deliberately casual shrug. "I was just wondering what they were." "Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?" I — Patrick Rothfuss

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life. — Linda Vester

What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark. — Robin McKinley

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting. — John Scofield