Gumbrecht Stanford Quotes & Sayings

She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously. — Isabel Allende

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it. — Michael Bloomberg

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer. — Winona Ryder

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle. — Lena Dunham

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. — Thomas Dewar

That's like a fairy-tale princess in a patrol car, huh? But hey, even, Disney princesses are toughening up these days. We're all capable of many things, right? — Heather Graham

I think I stand as much chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do being killed on a plane flight home. Let's hope you don't. — Ted Bundy

You can never conquer us, we will die first. — Benjamin F. Wade

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more "laws" or law-like measures were put on the books than ever. — Sheila Fitzpatrick

Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, "No, thank you. Really, I'm full." It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with the word MICRO used to describe them. — Stephanie Klein