Hofmannsthal Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

147Why should God make you suffer torment if you are thankful and believe in Him? God always rewards gratitude and He knows everything. — Anonymous

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. — Jeremy Corbyn

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. — Katherine Heigl

We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far. — April Ross

The artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal. His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: to that part of our nature which, because of the warlike conditions of existence, is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities ... His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring - and sooner forgotten. Yet its effect endures forever ... the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad

And Berg'inyon knew, too, why his brother wanted the first try at Drizzt. Drizzt had been trained by Zaknafein, Dantrag's principal rival, the one weapons master in Menzoberranzan whose fighting skills were more highly regarded than those of Dantrag. By all accounts, Drizzt had become at least Zaknafein's equal, and if Dantrag could defeat Drizzt, then he might at last come out from under Zaknafein's considerable shadow. — R.A. Salvatore

A being of light for a pet wouldn't be furry, but it would keep you warm - and awake at night. — Jarod Kintz

I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound. — Georgia May Jagger

Women are the harshest critics of other women. — Joy Bryant

That was why We laid it down for the Children of Israel that whoever killed a human being - except as a punishment for murder or for spreading corruption in the land - shall be regarded as having killed all mankind, and that whoever saved a human life shall be regarded as having saved all mankind. — Anonymous

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that. — Beryl Reid