Folgende Themenbereiche Quotes & Sayings

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King. — Ramsey Clark

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen. — Ruth Glick

Prabhakar was waiting for me at the bus station, smiling happily through the rain. He led me through the people gathered at the bus station, past shops selling cheap household items and eating places where pakoras were being fried in bubbling oil. The brands and consumerism of urban India had disappeared, and although I felt an acute sense of displacement, I was oddly comforted by the rough utilitarianism of the place, which reminded me of the India I had grown up in.

There were no cafes where I could hide my loneliness behind a cup of coffee and an open laptop, no shopping aisles where I could wander, picking out items that momentarily created an image of a better life. There was no escape here except through human relationships, and for that I was utterly dependent on Prabhakar speeding through the rain on his motorcycle. — Siddhartha Deb

Character is plot, plot is character. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity. — Ulrich Beck

The only way to diminish our regrets is by making decisions that lead to peace. — Lysa TerKeurst

For, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable. — Bram Stoker

And here I thought the orgasm came with the coffee. — Wendy Byrne

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. — Paul Valery

That a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. — Thomas Paine

My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to. — LeBron James

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. — Samuel Smiles