Helmut Panke Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm not sure how to react to this information. Mostly, I'm thinking that if the revolution comes, this fact alone will make it hard to fault the insurrection. "Well, I don't approve of mass executions of the ruling class," we'll have to admit. "But on the other hand, there's that trend of plastic surgery to upgrade our farts. We really were asking for it. — A. J. Jacobs

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick. — Suzanne Vega

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles. — P. J. O'Rourke

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. — Seneca The Younger

emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw. — John McEvoy

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers. — Charles Kuralt

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover. — Michael Hyatt

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me. — Bill Hader

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit. — Gertrude Atherton

The only difference between those who are doing it and those who aren't doing it is that those who are doing it... are doing it! — Joel Comm