Dauertest Quotes & Sayings

The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out? — Elizabeth Alexander

Freedom is not having any standard outside one's own consciousness, but bearing all responsibility oneself. Freedom means that one can never again receive help. Joseph Conrad says this in Typhoon: The loneliness of command is that there is no help from anyone in heaven and earth. I've experienced that, in one single, decisive moment: no one could help me, I had to do everything myself, without aid or advice from anyone. It was an enormous loneliness, a moment of total loneliness between the stars and the earth. — Jens Bjorneboe

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility. — Harrison Ford

Maybe that's his thing. Maybe he's really that much of a dork. I could be friends with that kind of behavior. — David Levithan

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field! — Abby Wambach

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. — Saadi

The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that - not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts. — Virginia Woolf

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now. — Warren Farrell