Gewissheiten Quotes & Sayings

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. — Lin Yutang

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. — Jane Austen

You're a woman, use it; bring every man you meet to his motherfucking knees.

-My mother — Unknown

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Part of learning to count my blessings is accepting that many of them I would not have chosen if — Janette Oke

At a certain age, he thought, it is better for one's health not to do what I am about to do. At a certain age, a man's outlook is best tempered by moderation, if not resignation, if not outright capitulation. At a certain age, one should live without either harking too much back to grievances of the past or inviting resistance in the present by embodying a challenge to the pieties that be. Yet to give up playing any but the role socially assigned, in this instance assigned to the respectably retired - at seventy-one, that is surely what is appropriate, and so, for Coleman Silk, as he long ago demonstrated with requisite ruthlessness to his very own mother, that is what is unacceptable. — Philip Roth

There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence. — Alexandre Dumas

All propositions are of equal value. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is a complex cycle, so vast that we can't see it with our own eyes. Maybe it's "The World," maybe it's "The Universe" ... But whatever it's called, you and I are only a tiny part of that great flow. One part of the whole. But all those individual parts come together so that the whole can exist. And the cycle keeps on flowing because all of nature follows this fundamental law. Understanding that flow. Deconstructing and then reconstructing ... That's the meaning of Alchemy. — Hiromu Arakawa

Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. — Frederick Buechner