Helweg Rowland Quotes & Sayings

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity. — Herbert Marcuse

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. — Tamsin Greig

Businessman, philanthropist, large egg. — Jasper Fforde

The storm was fierce. But I wasn't afraid. I knew my father's love was fiercer than any storm. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours. — Publilius Syrus

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. — John Michael Greer

The great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as poetry or relationship counselling. — Alain De Botton

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again. — Casey Stengel

The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with people who were obviously very important wizards. Percy jumped to his feet so often that he looked as though he were trying to sit on a hedgehog. — J.K. Rowling

The car rolled slowly along the deserted corniche, headlights cleaving its way through Beirut by night. In gentle swerves to avoid potholes, the Mercedes waltzed along a straight road in a dance of death. Sick palm trees and parched grass divided the tarred road of civilization. The sea alone was testimony to God's beautiful creation. But in its belly, corpses, limbs, garbage, and ordnance mingled with a sea life on the verge of extinction. — Dana K. Haffar