Geheimtaal Circle Quotes & Sayings

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole. — James Madison

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war. — Winston Churchill

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H.G.Wells

I've always felt that kids are really smart. — Michelle Trachtenberg

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Ed's breath wanders over me, and he spotlights that freckle on my neck with his eyes and the heat of the night is sharper than ever and it feels like we're hanging from the sky or the ceiling. Swaying around each other without our feet on the ground. If we touched I wouldn't be surprised to hear chiming. — Cath Crowley

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. — John C. Hawkes

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. — Carl Karcher

What had the man had, to make him by the loss of it so bleed and yet live? Something - and this reached him with a pang - that he, John Marcher, hadn't; the proof of which was precisely John Marcher's arid end. No passion had ever touched him, for this was what passion meant; he had survived and maundered and pined, but where had been his deep ravage? ... The escape would have been to love her; then, then he would have lived. — Henry James

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. — Anthony Hope

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. — Zakes Mda

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else. — Paul Auster

People just deserve to be treated with kindness. — Sophia Bush

I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking. — Hilarie Burton