Begegnungen B2 Quotes & Sayings

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration. — Thomas Reid

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. — W.B.Yeats

Hair, apparently, is the new window to the soul. — Meg Donohue

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. — Stephen Harper

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook. — Jerry Yang

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits

In civilised life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face. — C.S. Lewis

You're going to let me love you like you should have the first time I offered. — Ella Dominguez