Federbetten Quotes & Sayings

There was nothing terrible about them. They had no particular power over me. No more than anyone else. It had never been them. It had always been me. This realization was like a word I had to be taught every time I heard it. The definition never seemed to sink in. They were just ordinary people. [ ... ] It used to matter so much. It used to seem like such a struggle to not turn into my father. But now, sitting here, it seemed impossible that that could've ever happened. I had wasted so much time on this. I kept finding out that the monster I'd been fighting was only me. — Maggie Stiefvater

I definitely consider myself extremely blessed to have great partners in endorsing products. It's not about being on billboards. I endorse something because I believe in it. — Tim Tebow

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. — William Westmoreland

[The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself. — Henry B. Eyring

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. — Michelle Williams

News, like men, traveled slowly; intelligence of Barbarossa's death in Cilicia took four months to reach Germany.16 Medieval man could eat his breakfast without being disturbed by the industriously collected calamities of the world; or those that came to his ken were fortunately too old for remedy. — Will Durant

She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge. — Rainbow Rowell

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing. — Jay-Z

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone. — Peter Carey

After a while, she murmurs, "What does it mean... what is it to be American?" The question stuns him. That he doesn't know how to answer stuns him more. Or maybe he doesn't know the answer. Maybe certainty is impossible. We're only as real as what we do and what is done to us in the moment; knowing comes much later, if it comes at all. We're jostled by too many acts that we choose to forget. — Merlinda Bobis

My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope. — Katie Cassidy

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time. — Tatiana Maslany

I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa. — Gautama Buddha