Eckental Quotes & Sayings

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus

She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.
Kingsley ... I can't do this. I'm coming with you. — Melissa De La Cruz

Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for. — Sydney J. Harris

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate "when the trees fall and the walls collapse ". At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. Men of letters who cling to the private successes of their petty aesthetics shut themselves off from poetry's restless presence. From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. The politician and the mediocre poets with their armour of symbols and mystic purities pretend to ignore the real poet. It is a story which repeats itself like the cock's crow; indeed, like the cock's third crow. — Salvatore Quasimodo

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose ... — India.Arie

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew. — Jack Zipes

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. — Gijs De Vries

But I am afraid I don't, — Louisa May Alcott

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. — Richard Prince

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. — Aldous Huxley