Hildegarde Philosopher Quotes & Sayings

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out! — Dionna L. Hayden

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them — Randall Jarrell

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides — Quentin Crisp

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them. — Martha Beck

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things. — Sun Tzu

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue. — Karl Liebknecht

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is. — Rita Mae Brown

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble. — Michael Palin

Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die. — Cobie Smulders

Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 1830s and famously proclaimed the emergence of Homo democraticus, a cheeky creature whose passion for equality and self-interest was tempered only by his ability to join fellow citizens in all manner of mutual associations for pragmatic benefit. — Anonymous

If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting. — Lois Greiman

It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine. — Jeb Bush