Gemeinsame Referenzrahmen Quotes & Sayings

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother. — William Golding

A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense. — Hannah Arendt

What did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they could cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away. The rain came. The dew. Oskar has a vision of floodgates opening. Of dams bursting in the spring floods. What is the name of that river that overflows every spring and the government does nothing to stop it? — Gunter Grass

There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house. — Kin Hubbard

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism. — Erick Erickson

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble. — Norman Cousins

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it — Justin Bieber

Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right ... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit. — Gerald Jay Sussman