Geschenke Zur Quotes & Sayings

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow! — Diane Duane

Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain. — Natasha Trethewey

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific. — Jodie Foster

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers. — George Makari

Communism is the flower of idleness. — George Ticknor

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson

He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind. — John Connolly

So maybe we're both broken," I said. "Maybe we make each other whole. — J. Kenner

It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like. — Greta Gerwig

Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged. — Kim Newman

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place — Bob Dole

The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless, — Frederick Marryat

Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes. — Amy Harmon

We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us. — Elizabeth Smart

When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast ... — William James