Elisabetha Krein Quotes & Sayings

Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime. — Donna Goddard

My look blue as the sky
Is as calm as water in the sun.
It's that way, blue and calm,
Because it doesn't question and it doesn't get surprised...

If I did question or got surprised
New flowers wouldn't bloom in the meadows
And nothing would change in the sun in a way to make it more beautiful...

(Even if new flowers bloomed in the meadows
And the sun turned more beautiful,
I would sense fewer flowers in the meadow
And would find the sun more ugly...
Because everything's like it is and so it's what it is,
And I accept, and I'm not even thankful,
So I don't seem to be thinking about it...) — Alberto Caeiro

Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, — William Shakespeare

When I ride a horse, it just makes my blood wiggle! [Cole, age 5] — Kim Meeder

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent. — Ilona Andrews

We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking - what we might call "magical reason" - pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor. — David Watson

Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945," Billy Pilgrim began. "We came out of our shelter the next day." He told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone, — Kurt Vonnegut

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. — T.E. Lawrence

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others. — Ben Brantley

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. — Jennifer Dunn

Music can change your mood instantly. It can make memories feel present and any dream seem tangible. — Katie Kacvinsky

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily Bronte

Recognition hit Victoria like an unexpected encounter with a bat. — Lynn Raye Harris

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson