Gitta Steinmetz Quotes & Sayings

Soldiers and women. That's how the world is. Any other role is temporary. Any other role is a gesture. — Jeanette Winterson

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein

The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream. — Francis Harold Cook

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. — Muhammad Yunus

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? — William Shakespeare

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? — F Scott Fitzgerald