Gescheiterten Quotes & Sayings

Charles, we should never stop pretending. Pretending can lead to wishing. Wishing then leads to hoping. Hoping then moves to dreaming. Dreaming can then lead to planning. If we are lucky, some plans come true. — John J. Siefring

Gods and demons, being creatures outside of time, don't move in it like bubbles in the stream. Everything happens at the same time for them. This should mean that they know everything that is going to happen because, in a sense, it already has. The reason they don't is that reality is a big place with a lot of interesting things going on, and keeping track of all of them is like trying to use a very big video recorder with no freeze button or tape counter. It's usually easier just to wait and see. — Anonymous

But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The wind is small, he thought, and there is no sun. You have four grenades in your pocket but they are only good to throw away. You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. You have a message to give away. And you're full of crap that you can give to the earth, he grinned in the dark. You can anoint it also with urine. Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man, he told himself and grinned again. — Ernest Hemingway,

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. — Jonathan Swift

At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic. — Thorsten Heins

Na, we are not sincere about anything; we are serious about everything because deep down, we are afraid to loose something we don't know about. — Saurabh Sharma

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. — Michel Legrand

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. — Grace Paley

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. — Daniel Defoe

Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. — Moffat Machingura

Not facing the growth that we have to face always leads to further suffering - and the further suffering is usually progressively worse. — Anonymous

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. — Socrates

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream. — John Scott