Gottfried Kirch Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society — Chelsea Manning

Tea was a moody drink. — Becky Chambers

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. — Anthony Bourdain

Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all. — Bernie Sanders

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ... — Julia Ward Howe

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I — Gail Collins

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!" — Tina Fey

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst. — Gerald Brenan

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces. — David Berlinski

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price. — Paulo Coelho

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul ... He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him. — John Dryden

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her. — Michael Tucker

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life. — Remy De Gourmont

My dad never explained anything growing up. — Tom Douglas

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him. — Anthony Bourdain