Hermantown Quotes & Sayings

Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now? — Frederick Lenz

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. — Salman Rushdie

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies. — Anton Chekhov

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. — Eliphas Levi

Morning is the time to hide. They wake up, hale and hearty, their tongues hanging out for order, beauty and justice, baying for their due. Yes, from eight or nine till noon is the dangerous time. But towards noon things quiet down, the most implacable are sated, they go home, it might have been better but they've done a good job, there have been a few survivors but they'll give no more trouble, each man counts his rats. — Samuel Beckett

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul

I consider everything that happened to be precious moments of my life.
The pain.
The suffering.
The fun ...
And I am here right now, because everyone was there for me.
I couldn't have accomplished anything by standing still, without anybody's help.
I treasure every moment I have spent here.
Unlucky?
I feel pretty lucky.
This is my resolve.
-Sawada Tsunayoshi- — Sawada Tsunayoshi

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. — John Dufresne

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill. — Mary E. Pearson

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time. — Thomas Gainsborough

Thinking is an art because it requires you to listen to your thoughts and then do something with them. — Andrew Holmes

My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education. — Emma Chase