Hofheimer Zeitung Quotes & Sayings

It was not said amiss by Antisthenes, when people told him that one Ismenias was an excellent piper, "It may be so," said he, "but he is but a wretched human being, otherwise he would not have been an excellent piper." And king Philip, to the same purpose, told his son Alexander, who once at a merry-meeting played a piece of music charmingly and skilfully, "Are you not ashamed, son, to play so well?" For it is enough for a king or prince to find leisure sometimes to hear others sing, and he does the muses quite honor enough when he pleases to be but present, while others engage in such exercises and trials of skill. He who busies himself in mean occupations produces, in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good. — Plutarch

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom. — Stefan Hell

It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs. — Janeane Garofalo

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. — Shannon L. Alder

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. — Vladimir Nabokov

Sounds like a pretty miserable existence to me, to have to keep denying who you are every second of your life. — Jessica Verdi

It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them — Lionel Shriver

Jagged Peak was buried alive. — Erin Hunter

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl. — Minka Kelly