Bochumer Germany Quotes & Sayings

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum. — Susan Collins

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike. — Paul Bowles

That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited - a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage - a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
Thus his intellectual ambition which seemed to others to have absorbed and dried him, was really no security against wounds — George Eliot

Swing is my favorite kind of music. — George Strait

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. — John Lydon

A fleeting moment of bliss filling your existence with ecstasy, only to fade with the dimming light.
No, I could not believe that. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?' One — Leo Tolstoy

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. — Robert Dallek

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. — Chief Joseph