Feindselige Quotes & Sayings

She took a life because someone
humiliated her, hurt her image of herself as the Valkyrie, the
stainless warrior. Exposed her weakness, which was only love. So she
avenged herself. So easy to justify, I wrote to her. It's because you
felt like a victim you did it. If you were really strong, you could
have tolerated the humiliation. — Janet Fitch

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of everything but appetities, desires and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. A culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs and purposes, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests and politics alike. — Jeremy Seabrook

Difficult situations breed astonishing results. — Jeffrey Veen

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years. — Barbara Holland

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them. — Ammon Hennacy

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist. — Marian Engel

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. — Karl Lagerfeld

Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well. — Marianne Williamson

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement. — Ed Oxenbould

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. — Anna Kendrick

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person. — Edwidge Danticat

If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem. — Patch Adams

Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes closed. So you're the ones who've got to steer. — Jennifer Senior

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all. — William, Saroyan