Behrend Vennoot Quotes & Sayings

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring - which may also be termed a passion - it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the future race; in another, as the marriage of man and woman, it becomes the very foundation of human society. And so we can hardly believe that in its homogenic form, with which we are here concerned, it has not also a deep significance, and social uses and functions which will become clearer to us, the more we study it. — Edward Carpenter

The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes. — David Foster Wallace

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do. — Caroline Kennedy

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner. — Pat Barker

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. — Wally Lamb

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person. — Albert Einstein

You're the girl that guys like us, if we're smart and if we're lucky that is, you're the girl we marry. You're the marriage girl. — Penny Reid

Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing ... Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. It will all go on trifles. Yes, yes, yes! Don't look at me with such astonishment. If you expect something from yourself in the future, then at every step you'll feel that it's all over for you, it's all closed, except the drawing room, where you'll stand on the same level as a court flunkey and an idiot ... — Leo Tolstoy

rights, a physician with his experience and demonstrated skill should have been home in the Star Kingdom on the staff of one of the major base hospitals, or else assigned to one of the lavishly equipped hospital ships which accompanied the Fleet Train. — David Weber

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well. — Tim Cahill

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. — Francis Schaeffer

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times. — Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.' — Joshua Oppenheimer

But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception. — Hermann Hesse