Gekreuzte Schwerter Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo. — Robert Greene

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment. — John De Ruiter

I know." He leaned forward, pressed his forehead against hers. "Just . . . give me a little time. I've never had someone who was mine before. — Nalini Singh

In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive. — Ronald Syme

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action). — Julien Benda

From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony. — Maya Beiser

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. — William Wordsworth

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. — Earl Weaver

Time's the thief of memory — Stephen King

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit. — Samuel Freeman Miller

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid ... it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song. — Jorma Kaukonen

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane. — Trevor Noah

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. — Plutarch