Gemeinsame Normdatei Quotes & Sayings

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. — Thomas Francis Meagher

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness. — Scott Westerfeld

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something. — J.K. Rowling

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key. — Goodluck Jonathan

My life was like living Love's dream, until he betrayed me. That's when I realized that I wasn't as important to him as I thought I was. — Sparkling Amethyst

I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating. — Daniel Kehlmann

I wasn't exactly sure what to feel and think about the situation, but I knew that whatever was going to happen was out of anyone's control. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity — Jo M. Sekimonyo

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! — Boethius

you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified - and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me - I have to marry, that goes without saying. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave. — Jane Campion

Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins. — Homer

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche