Englischer Quotes & Sayings

It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a fist. — David Sedaris

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

His vision crawled with ghost hieroglyphs, translucent lines of symbols arranging themselves against the neutral backdrop of the bunker wall. He looked at the backs of his hands, saw faint neon molecules crawling beneath the skin, ordered by the unknowable code. He raised his right hand and moved it experimentally. It left a faint, fading trail of strobed afterimages. — William Gibson

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy. — Richard Louv

But we don't get over grief by denying it. We have to feel it. We have to give it its due. — Claudia Gray

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change ... you have been born again. — Billy Graham

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. — Marquis De Lafayette

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about. — Joel Osteen

Make ourselves attractive to students?" said the Archchancellor. "Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into. — Terry Pratchett

He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper. — Hugh Laurie

Know that you are great ... so dominate. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth ... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air. — Paul Cezanne