Bergisch Quotes & Sayings

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange. — Ludwig Von Mises

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past. — Ben Elton

My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks. The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick. — James Clavell

Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle. — Andrzej Sapkowski

From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For — Yuval Noah Harari

Must the Earth forever be arranged like an ocean steamer, with large, luxurious rooms and luxurious food for a select few, and underneath in the steerage, where the great mass can barely breathe from dirt and the poisonous air? — Various

When I say it's hard to believe in Jesus, I mean it's hard to believe in Jesus's ideas - in his way of saving the world. For Christians it's not hard to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity - all the Christological stuff the church hammered out in the first five centuries. That's not hard for us. What's hard is to believe in Jesus as a political theologian. It's hard because his ideas for running the world are so radically different from anything we are accustomed to. — Brian Zahnd

You have not taught until they have learned. — John Wooden

I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging. — Victoria Lamb

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer — Kim Carnes

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown) — Antonio F. Vianna

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. — Thomas A. Edison

I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.
They just did it in different ways. — Joanna Wylde