Erix Maria Remark Quotes & Sayings

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable. — Evelyn Underhill

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. — Stewart Udall

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages. — Arthur Ruppin

A typical weeknight when he was home like this:
1. Sit down and try to do homework.
2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: "Please play with me!"
3. Ignore brother, try to do homework.
4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: "Come ON, Steven! I'm BORED!"
5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace.
6. Get begged for five minutes of play: "Steven, you never, ever play with me - ever!"
7. Move entire homework operations center to different room.
8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac. — Jordan Sonnenblick

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Levi-Strauss

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses. — Sara Sheridan

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.. — Princess Aurora

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. — Jim Lehrer

Economic and political factors play themselves out through human agency; and human beings are fundamentally shaped by their cultures. — Francis George

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. — Victor Hugo

I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut. — Kid Rock

The good stuff was hiding the bad stuff. I realised that this was something I needed to look out for: When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what's bugging them, for the fear of being labeled complainers. — Ed Catmull

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man. — Rush

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed. — Chief Joseph