Deichmann Quotes & Sayings

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense. — Gloria Steinem

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion. — Anne Parillaud

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder. — Al-Ghazali

Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real. — Brenda Rothert

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. — Salman Rushdie

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'You know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty. — Jeff Foxworthy

Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?' — Brandon Sanderson

To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract. — Marianne Williamson

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. — Carl Jung

We work in the best of our abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star. — Miranda Otto

A band is a good way to break up a friendship. — Julian Casablancas

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. — Barack Obama

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. — Rose Macaulay