Hans Scharoun Quotes & Sayings

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior. — Karl Marlantes

The point of all this is not so that the copper in question can learn more about your motivations and beliefs. They lack such psychoanalytic curiosity. That's why they're traffic policemen. By making you answer a question to which they already know the answer, they are asserting their authority, and belittling yours. That's also why they're traffic policemen. — Mark Forsyth

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too). — Elizabeth Gilbert

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. — Alfred North Whitehead

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. — Stendhal

I remembered a scripture they read us from the Bible about God not putting more on us than we could bear. I was beginning to wonder if that was just for those people who went to church every Sunday and prayed before they went to bed at night. Because he wasn't holding back any punches with me. — Abbi Glines

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other. — Kinky Friedman

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique. — Stephen Malkmus

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead. — Lynne Tillman

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it — Ally Condie

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. — David Suzuki

I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying. — Clare B. Dunkle

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. — Harold S. Geneen

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, top tangled to be taken apart."
I nodded. "It's true. So much of me is tied up in you. I feel kind of lost without you. — Kiera Cass