Ernsthaft Quotes & Sayings

We have to learn how to stop being afraid of people who are different than us, who are supposedly our enemies. We are taught that our enemies are there, not that people want to live in peace. They don't want to fight. They just want to live and enjoy life and accomplish things. — Eytan Fox

I was indeed very slow as a youngster. — Roger Penrose

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. — Eric Schlosser

I didn't mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives. — Peter Drucker

I just wanted to sing on TV. — Sanjaya Malakar

Where do we get our values from? — George Carlin

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. — Margot Fonteyn

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever. — Virginia Woolf

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present. — Daniel Goldstein

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves? — Christian Harrison

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons. — Mike Mignola

Why do some people fall out of activity ... for the same reason that they fall out of bed ... they are not far enough in it. — Jacob De Jager