Dencklau Quotes & Sayings

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. — Peter Ustinov

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy. — Grant Bowler

He's quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me. — Andre Agassi

His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page. His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it's sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There's violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It's silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque ...
My mother stands there at the living room door with her arms by her sides. And I think that there's violence in that too - in her inability to reach out to me, to make the gesture which is impossible and so forever suspended. — Delphine De Vigan

I had traversed the line from doctor to patient, from actor to acted upon, from subject to direct object. — Paul Kalanithi

Gold makes the ugly beautiful. — Moliere

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. — Theodore Roosevelt

Working full-time should mean enough to support a family. — Barack Obama

No love is worth that trouble. — Mitch Albom

Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P.T. Barnum

Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realises the common good of freedom and self-government. — Iseult Honohan

He said something like that:
"In all languages in the world, there is the same proverb: 'What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.' Well, I say that there isn't any ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we're far from exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we're far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.
At the end of the service, I went up to him and thanked him: I said I was a stranger in a strange land, and I thanked him for reminding me that what the eyes don't see, the heart does grieve over. And my heart has grieved so much, that today I'm leaving. — Paulo Coelho