Einmalig Francais Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people. — Ian Desabrais

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

Homosexuality is perverse; it represents a degradation of a person's mind. — Robert Jeffress

Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the parrots nesting at the far side of the lake could still be heard over the jets. — Katherine Boo

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that. — Liya Kebede

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone

The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing 'strength from the depths of the universe'; Malcolm Lowry speaks about the deadness of the stars except when he looked at them with a particular girl; I had neither feeling. The founder of the Jesuits used to spend many hours under the stars; it is hard to be certain whether his first stirrings of scientific speculation or pre-scientific wonder about space and the stars in their own nature were some element in his affinity with starlight, or whether for him they were only a point of departure, but in this matter I think I am about fifty years more modern than Saint Ignatius; stars mean to me roughly what they meant to Donne's generation, a bright religious sand imposing the sense of an intrusion into human language, and arousing a certain personal thirst to be specific. — Peter Levi

After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with 'The Last Stand,' a modern Western, then crammed into the wide screen, as if it were a service elevator, with fellow '80s muscle car Sylvester Stallone in 'Escape Plan.' — Richard Corliss

Foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. — W. Somerset Maugham

The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market. — Peter R. Orszag

Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak. — Lao-Tzu

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

It is necessary to be very strong against something — Ernest Hemingway,

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein