Horgen Glarus Quotes & Sayings

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion. — John C. Calhoun

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Which carries the greater value? The years or the weeks? — Kim Vogel Sawyer

Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.
Unless your name is something along the lines of Mozart, Matisse, Churchill, Che Guevara or Bond - James Bond - you best spent your free time finger painting or playing shuffeboard, for no one, with the exception of your flabby-armed mother with stiff hair and a mashed potato way of looking at you, will want to hear the particulars of your pitiable existence, which doubtlessly will end as it began - with a wheeze. — Marisha Pessl

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story. — Patti Smith

Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being. — Joe Mynhardt

The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't think what, and then he realized it was the roof - the vault of heaven - in a side chapel at the Catholic church where his mother dragged them three times a day on Sunday when they were very small, until she ran out of energy and let the devil have them. (One Good Turn) — Kate Atkinson

I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ. — Saint Basil

Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are. — Lionel Shriver

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything. — Cameron Mackintosh

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity. — Beth Gibbons

I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere. — Waris Ahluwalia

I didn't want him to think I was weak, but he was the only person in the whole world who had any idea of the real predicament I was in, and that made him, at the moment, my best friend, even though he was about as comforting as a catcus. — Kelly Green