Aufruf Schreiben Quotes & Sayings

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine. — Dan Rather

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. — Shirin Ebadi

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face. — Jesse Jackson

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind. — John Lennon

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office. — Pete Stark

I pound the counter. "One time! A snake peed on me one time!" "That's all it takes, Snake Piss!" Saul shouts from the back. "That's all it takes," Dane says, drumming on the counter and turning to the hipsters as they approach to order. — Daniel Rodrigues-Martin

Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans. — Mary Oliver

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard — Abraham J. Williams

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. — Ivan Doig

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth. — Susan Jacoby

I would have thought you'd pay more attention to your closest competition."
"I would - if you were competition worth paying attention to. — Rachel Morgan

About fifty million years ago ... geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. — William Happer

That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers — Manu Joseph

You miss the idea of him. There you go. Was that so hard? "That goes away, too," says your friend. Through the magic of the biological imperative, his brain has been reprogrammed. He has been forced to gloss over his own romantic carnage so that he might once again start down that road of procreation. He has nineteen layers of skin; you have three-fourths of a layer. They're all like this, the recovered. Sometimes you want to hop across the table, curl up in their laps, and beg to be made one of them. How does it work? Hypnosis? A chip in the neck? A radioactive spider with Xanax venom? — Sloane Crosley