Biedermeier Period Quotes & Sayings

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all. — Robert M. Pirsig

Because we demand a future, we live each moment in expectation and unfulfillment. We live each moment in passing. In just this way the real nunc stans, the timeless present, is reduced to the nunc fluens, the fleeting present, the passing present of a mere one or two seconds. We expect each moment to pass on to a future moment, for in this fashion we pretend to avoid death by always rushing toward an imagined future. We want to meet ourselves in the future. We don't want just now - we want another now, and another, and another, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. And thus, paradoxically, our impoverished present is fleeting precisely because we demand that it end! We want it to end so that it can thereby pass on to yet another moment, a future moment, which will in turn live only to pass. — Ken Wilber

No one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now — Jane Austen

The presence of some serious budgetary myopia is obvious here, as the vast majority of money is spent on studying diseases and virtually none is spent on understanding why healthy people are healthy in the first place. — Richard Matthews

An actor works with their soul and their thought. — Monica Bellucci

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America! — Mira Sorvino

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living, — Hayao Miyazaki

And if I have not also shown that German is a harassing and infuriating study, my execution has been at fault, and not my intent. I heard lately of a worn and sorely tried American student who used to fly to a certain German word for relief when he could bear up under his aggravations no longer - the only word whose sound was sweet and precious to his ear and healing to his lacerated spirit. This was the word damit. It was only the sound that helped him, not the meaning; [3] and so, at last, when he learned that the emphasis was not on the first syllable, his only stay and support was gone, and he faded away and died. — Mark Twain

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net. — Brian Lamb

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen. — Suzanne Collins

Don't shit where you eat. — Emma Chase

Not Really, he said then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes. — John Green

the pale hand of an enormous albino with long white hair. — Dan Brown