Donsbach Germantown Quotes & Sayings

Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else's greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity. — T.D. Jakes

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want. — Thomas Jefferson

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

The surest sign of age is loneliness. — Annie Dillard

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story. — Robert G. Allen

I thought of my mother ( ... ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong. — Scott Spencer

It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. — Patrick Marber

Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be. — Etgar Keret

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God. — Therese Of Lisieux

Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility. — Robert L. Joss

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't. — Bob Dylan

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go
miles out of the way, as if
avoiding it would make it go away once and for all. — Sarah Dessen

Rumours crop in the short summer nights. Dawn finds them like mushrooms
in the damp grass. Members of Thomas Cromwell's household have been seeking a midwife in the small hours of the morning. He is hiding a woman at some country house of his, a foreign woman who has given him a daughter.
Whatever you do, he says to Rafe, don't defend my honour. I have women like that all over the place.
They will believe it, Rafe says. The word in the city is that Thomas Cromwell has a prodigious ...
Memory, he says. I have a very large ledger. A huge filing system, in which are recorded (under their name, and also under their offence) the details of people who have cut across me. — Hilary Mantel