Herr Settembrini Quotes & Sayings

He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family. — Thomas Hardy

I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place. — Terry Pratchett

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people ... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. — Robert Mugabe

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world. — Hector Tobar

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you. — Epictetus

Freedom to make mistakes, freedom to live life messily. — Darien Gee

Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit. — Gennadius Of Constantinople

Sometimes I'll get a bunch of my friends to pretend they're my fans and then I'll walk out on the street and I'll have them mob me just so I can prepare. — Dane DeHaan

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. — C.S. Lewis

Your father's impressive.'He's a scary motherfucker, but we get along well. — Aleksandr Voinov

You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun. — Thomas Mann

I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog. — Clarice Lispector