Einzelteile Eines Quotes & Sayings

fake people notice the most fake things in the most real people — Abby Reynolds

In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me. — Arthur Rimbaud

There aren't any real strong people anywhere. Only people who can put on a good show of being strong. — Haruki Murakami

As God is my witness, he is broken in half! — Jim Ross

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. — Erica Jong

I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them. — Adam Smith

He saw an evening when he sat slumped across his desk in that office. It was late and his staff had left; so he could lie there alone, unwitnessed. He was tired. It was as if he had run a race against his own body, and all the exhaustion of years, which he refused to acknowledge, had caught him at once and flattened him against the desk top. He felt nothing, except the desire not to move. He did not have the strength to feel
not even to suffer. He had burned everything there was to burn within him; he had scattered so many sparks to start so many things
and he wondered whether someone could give him now the spark he needed, now when he felt unable ever to rise again. He asked himself who had started him and kept him going. Then he raised his head. Slowly, with the greatest effort of his life, he made his body rise until he was able to sit upright with only one hand pressed to the desk and a trembling arm to support him. He never asked that question again. — Ayn Rand