Gewahrsein Quotes & Sayings

I am always amazed, in myself and in other women, at the strength of our need to bolster men up. This is ironical, living as we do in a time of men's criticizing us for being 'castrating', etc., - all the other words and phrases of the same kind. (Nelson says his wife is 'castrating' - this makes me angry, thinking of the misery she must have lived through.) For the truth is, women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. Molly for instance. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create men. — Doris Lessing

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. — William Shakespeare

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. — Walter Kaufmann

There aren't words to tell you what you mean to me. But I hope that when you see this ring on your hand, you'll remember that you shine as brightly as diamonds in my life and you're infinitely more precious — Sylvia Day

I Fall upon the thorns of life.... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes when I observe contemporary U.S. culture, with its hard fronts and nasty culture wars, I have a strange sense that I've seen something like it before - in the Communist and semitotalitarian state in which I grew up. The issues and positions are very different, but the spirit is strangely familiar. In all public discussion, there was a party line that people had to toe; if you diverged, you were deemed disloyal and suspected of betraying the cause. I sense a similar spirit today among both progressives and conservatives in the United States when it comes to many hot-button issues, including Islam. — Miroslav Volf

An interface is a contract between you, the code developer, and the compiler. — Anonymous

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. — Roger Zelazny

Charlotte. There's a girl on the roof. She says her name is Lena... She says she brought the helicopter you wanted? - August — Brittany Cavallaro

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong. — Moby

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ... — Damien Hirst

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings. — Pittacus Lore

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith

say that a good student could learn more from a bad teacher than a poor — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam