Gerissen Auf Quotes & Sayings

When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms. — Thich Nhat Hanh

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger's undisclosed reason for the 'tilt' was the supposed but never materialised 'brokerage' offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was 'a basket case' before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere. — William M. Arkin

This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches. — William A. Rusher

As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers. — Matt Ridley

I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart. — Michael Chabon

Another big ripping sound. Jesus. Had they brought supernatural dynamite in to tear the whole place apart? — Lili St. Crow

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage. — Ed Brubaker

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65! — Cate Blanchett

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in. — Maggie Stiefvater

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. — Lydia Sigourney

Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy. — John Waters

But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would — Andrew Faulkner