Fliegl Abda Quotes & Sayings

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Please understand. When I look at you as if you're crazy, it's not that I judge you for your insanity. — Marie Rutkoski

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose. — Andrew Marvell

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. — Marvin Olasky

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. — Don Roff

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore. — Neil Peart

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. — Anonymous

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. — David Blunkett

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual. — David Lynch

Where do rumors come from, Sir Kofa?" i was truly curious to know the answer.
"Where don't they come from? I suppose the majority of rumors are a combination of leaked information and the astouding imaginations of numerous storytellers. And, of course, the hope that things aren't really as boring as they seem on the surface. — Max Frei

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism. — Yukio Mishima

An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence. — Victor Hugo

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson