Hansj Rg Schertenleib Quotes & Sayings

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance. I strive to retrace my life to find in it some plan, following a vein of lead, or of gold, or the course of some subterranean stream, but such devices are only tricks of perspective in the memory. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. — David Crystal

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street. — G.K. Chesterton

Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty! — Rumi

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe. — Leonard Susskind

And god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back — Ani DiFranco

You may find this hard to believe, Mr. Pinter," she went on defensively, "but some men enjoy my company. They consider me easy to talk to."
A ghost of a smile touched his handsome face. "You're right. I do find that hard to believe."
Arrogant wretch.
-Jackson and Celia — Sabrina Jeffries

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you. — Marc Maron

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future. — Han Nolan

The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.'
The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead' — Ivor Cutler