Hippel Soel Quotes & Sayings

When you become an adult, you get to choose your path. You take all the things you learned while you were on everyone else's and use it to build your own, but it's about where you heart wants to go. It's all up to you. — Lisa De Jong

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb

The great master is within you. — Vernon Kitabu Turner

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

I think it's love.'
'Funny.'
'I'm serious.'
'And your support for this is ... ?'
'A feeling.'
'You need more than that. — Doug Dorst

Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death. — Toba Beta

That's what you might call the normal pattern of female life. I've seen many girls and women, with strong maternal instincts, keen on getting married but mainly, though they mayn't quite know it themselves - because of their urge to motherhood. And the babies come; they're happy and satisfied. Life goes back into proportion for them. They can take an interest in their husbands and in the local affairs and in the gossip that's going round, and of course in their children. But it's all in proportion. The maternal instinct, in a purely physical sense, is satisfied, you see. — Agatha Christie

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate. — William Shatner

My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks. — Woody Allen

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality. — Alan Cohen

I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence — Bo Ryan

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee