Elendskraft Quotes & Sayings

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter

If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look. — Vladimir Nabokov

This is one of the most dreadful evils of alcohol, that it kills insidiously, as if it were doing no harm, or as if it were doing good, while it is destroying — Martha Meir Allen

We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot. — Stacie Orrico

Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today? — Robin Hobb

All of us make mistakes because of youth or ignorance or both. We can't do much about youth, but we can do something about ignorance. — Howard Buffett

I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times. — James Crumley

Give us this day our daily mask. — Tom Stoppard

If we all had what we wanted to eat ... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. — Jim Thompson

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. — Kerry Greenwood

In fact, so far as 'love' was concerned, I had been living for some years past in a rather makeshift manner. This was not because I felt the matter to be of little interest, like a man who hardly cares what he eats provided hunger is satisfied, or one prepared to discuss painting, should the subject arise, though never tempted to enter a picture gallery. On the contrary, my interest in love was keen enough, but the thing itself seemed not particularly simple to come by. — Anthony Powell

If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out. — Sadhguru

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. — Anthony Trollope

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We've lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable. — Tom Ford