Europische Quotes & Sayings

People will happily pat a man on the back if he's lucky enough to make it, but resent any suggestion they should help him get there.

Michael Robotham, Life or Death — Stuart Murray

I had never read any of the mystics, because I have never felt called to read them. In reading, as in other things, I always attempt practical obedience. There is nothing more favorable to intellectual progress, for as far as possible I do not read anything except for that which I am hungry in the moment, when I am hungry for it, and then I do not read ... I eat. God mercifully prevented me from reading the mystics, so that it would be evident to me that I had not fabricated this absolutely unexpected contact. — Simone Weil

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it. — Donna Lynn Hope

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that. — James D'arcy

I remember one day I was kissing Mason and he spit up in my mouth and I loved it. — Kourtney Kardashian

Their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we'd had was winter, all we'd had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age. — Ali Smith

Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking. — Per Petterson

I wanted to find one law to cover all of living. I found fear ... — Michael Ondaatje

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity. — Robert Boswell

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. — John Henry Newman

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind. — Walter Isaacson

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society. — David Blunkett

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it) ... — John Ashbery