Autobiographisches Quotes & Sayings

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. — Peter Jackson

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential. — Robert Nardelli

Books speak plain when counselors blanch. — Francis Bacon

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children. — Kailash Satyarthi

I love a story that balances pace with detail. — Michael Boatman

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me. — Gerald R. Ford

Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. — J. Stevens

It had to do with making a place for fear as a way of controlling it. He knew the smell of death and was terrified of it, for he could not anticipate it. It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day. On the third day of the new year, he walked through the Bottom down Carpenter's Road with a cowbell and a hangman's rope calling the people together. Telling them that this was their only chance to kill themselves or each other. — Toni Morrison

I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society]. — Madonna Ciccone

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were. — Carrie Jones

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminates the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

If one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two. — Katherine Mansfield