Duden Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. — Nate Ruess

Look into words for the tomb of space
where beauties & stones & eternities untangle.
( ... )
In them is the flood which bothers the sea
and the songs which need no music.
Say these words that evolve into silence,
whose language survives not being understood.
Pronounce those which are unpalatable &
untangle from all the world wants to hear. — M.T.C. Cronin

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives. — Elaine Stritch

rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine — Michael Lewis

He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless. — Irving Stone

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me. — Matthew Zapruder

Duden Dictionary Meaning #2
Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment. — Markus Zusak

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. — Noah Baumbach

I waited a long time," I whispered.
"For what?" he asked.
"For you — Kristen Ashley

Duden Dictionary Meaning #4. Wort - Word: A meaningful unit of language / a promise / a short remark, statement, or conversation. Related words: term, name, expession. — Markus Zusak

My own emotional feeling is that life has a purpose - ultimately,
I'd guess that the purpose it has is the purpose that we've given it and not a purpose that came out of any cosmic design. — Michio Kaku

Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words.
Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace. — Markus Zusak

If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern Europe] began instead to create a new system of state-controlled schools and mass organizations which would envelop their citizens from the moment of birth. Once inside this totalitarian system, it was assumed, the citizens of of the communist states would never want or be able to leave it. They were meant to become, in the sarcastic phrasing of an old Soviet dissident, members of the species Homo sovieticus, Soviet man. Not only would Homo Sovieticus never oppose communism; he could never even conceive of opposing communism. — Anne Applebaum

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities. — Gautama Buddha

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be. — Betty Friedan

However, over the years, the martial arts were separated into two schools for training, one for actual combat and the other as ritual dances that served to reinforce Manipuri cultural identity and played an important role in the physical and spiritual growth of the students who studied it. — Christopher Fernandes