Geheiligte Quotes & Sayings

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. — Henning Mankell

She shook her head. "I guess... that begs the question: just how many people have you slept with?"...
"All I can say for sure is the number is more than you can count on your fingers and toes. But less than the population of Miami. — Julie Ann Walker

You do know something quite important about the Cabinet," said Adora Belle, apparently waking up. "You know it wasn't built for or by a girl between the ages of four and, oh, eleven years old." "How do we know that?" "No pink. Trust me. No girl in that age group would leave out pink. — Terry Pratchett

Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable ... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization. — Jim Garrison

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work. — Bill Vaughan

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children. — Lawrence O'Donnell

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.
He meant a liar. — Jasper Fforde

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now. — Ian MacKaye

Dark and be lost forever, some to edge into the fitful light of his attention whether he wanted to see them or not. Shasta had nailed it. Forget who - what was he working for anymore? — Thomas Pynchon

We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing. — Joy Williams

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates. — Gilles Deleuze

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. — Willie Mays

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon. — Rosa Campbell Praed