Gewissermassen Quotes & Sayings

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change. — Koo Stark

He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly: "That's why it's generally better not ask him anything unless you know you can stand to hear the answer. — Cassandra Clare

Alas! it is too true that our souls always contract themselves on the approach of a blessing, and seem as if their powers, exhausted in the effort to obtain it, had no longer energy to embrace the object. — Charles Robert Maturin

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career. — Hannah Fidell

There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there. — Lawren Leo

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor. — Michael Novak

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer. — Sonu Nigam

He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars. — Nevil Shute

I don't want to belong to anyone but myself. I don't want to live anyone's life but my own.
And I do not fit into Jenny Dawson's life. I've known it from the very beginning.
But damned if it didn't feel like she was just starting to fit into mine. — Lauren Layne

I identify with the 99 per cent. — Peter M. Brant

I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there. — Isabel Allende