Auswirkungen Translation Quotes & Sayings

Don't talk about yourself so much ... we'll do that when you leave. — Anonymous

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women. — Angela Carter

That's great, Cath said, trying not to let her face show how much she wanted to kiss and kill him. — Rainbow Rowell

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope. — Bertrand Russell

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

Nutritionists all over the world are of the opinion that we should combine protein with complex carbohydrates. A simple dosai made with parboiled rice, husked black gram and fenugreek seeds fulfils this need. — Chandra Padmanabhan

It was a trick. It was this place, all the memories. His longing heart and the darkness conspiring. But his eyes told him it was no trick. He jumped down off the steps and walked toward her. Hoping. Fearing. He'd done this before. So many times. Caught sight of a slender black-haired woman and impulsively called to her, only to have her turn and gaze at him with eyes that were questioning, coldly polite, and never, ever hers. — Jennifer Donnelly

Loneliness swept over me, and I became aware of the vast uninhabited spaces. — Claire Fejes

Months later, when we went on our first date, I tried to seem put together, I wore a shawl she had given me. And her ring. I thought everything was behind me: death, and dying, and sickness. I didn't know I was changing my life - that I would have done anything, that what was left of me would become so ruthless to survive. — Ada Limon

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming. — Marianne Williamson

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days. — Desmond Tutu

I'd always hated the word realistic. Or, more truthfully, I'd always hated the way people used the word realistic - as if it were a limitation, as if reality were something that conformed so severely to likelihood that surprising things could never, ever happen. From what I'd seen, reality was much more complicated than that. Sometimes it was remarkably predictable, but a lot of the time it didn't go the way anybody would expect. I didn't believe in using probabilities to rule out possibilities. — David Levithan

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that. — Buck Owens