Gestreiftes Quotes & Sayings

In every betrayal dwells a self-betrayal. — Chang-rae Lee

Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea. — Jennifer Lawrence

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns. — Ben Mendelsohn

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage. — Robert Wright

We have a very limited time on Earth; the times we spent with the candles are always special and magical times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism. — Antonio Banderas

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. — Osman Baydemir

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first. — Henry David Thoreau

Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about morals and ethics now that religion has so much decayed? Arnold went almost as far as to propose that the study of literature replace the study of religion. I must say that I slightly dread the effect that this might have had on literary pursuit, but as a source of ethical reflection and as a mirror in which to see our human dilemmas reflected, the literary tradition is infinitely superior to the childish parables and morality tales, let alone the sanguinary and sectarian admonitions, of the "holy" books. — Christopher Hitchens

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance. — Adam Smith

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy. — Oswald Chambers