Furchte Quotes & Sayings

Others take a more cynical view, believing that the Cypriots have little inclination to reach a solution as they actually rather enjoy the international attention they receive. As George Mikes, a Hungarian wit, once famously, if rather unfairly, put it, 'Realizing they will never be a world power, the Cypriots have decided to settle for being a world nuisance'. — James Ker-Lindsay

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create. — Khaled Hosseini

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now. — Rosamunde Pilcher

A drowning person cannot help someone else who is drowning. — Charles F. Glassman

Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just as they have to be taught it is all right to kill and eat them. — J.M. Coetzee

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good. — Carl Sagan

Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we! A pair of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes, one old obster lumpky pumpkin and three meddlars on their slies. — James Joyce

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. — Elizabeth Drew

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. — H.L. Mencken

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan