Beschaffung Aktuell Quotes & Sayings

The rules are mine to set. What I don't believe in is playing by other people's rules. — Kyra Davis

When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable. — Frank Pittman

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. — Carter Burwell

If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.'

Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. — Holly Golightly

In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies. — Matt Blaze

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark. — Tim Butcher

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. — Laurence Fishburne

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority. — Peter Kreeft

The human brain is like a freight car, guaranteed to carry a certain capacity but often running empty. — Lorraine Gokul

The smell was like chocolate and cookies and biscuits and gravy and everything else that was delicious. It damn near drove me crazy every time I had to touch one. I'd been fighting the cravings the way I'd never fought the urge to take drugs or get drunk. — Diana Rowland

At the age of four, what prompted me to wake, dress and wander down the corridor of our family home and out into the street at dawn, I cannot say. A mystery to myself, I obeyed rules and directives of which I was unaware. All I knew was the feel of wet grass under my feet, the crisp air filling my lungs and the play of dappled light through the trees, strewing clothing as I made my way down the street. Thoughts of direction and safety never enter the mind of a child locked in an Autistic fog - for them there is only the sensing. — Rachael Lee Harris

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. — David Mellor

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. — John Barrow

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well. — Amy Tan