Importanter Quotes & Sayings

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. — Gregory J. P. Godek

As a matter of a fact, though, I've never actually played a video game where I've played as myself. — Ronnie Lott

These days, when people compete for ever more imaginative ways to make themselves stand out, when all of life is one big exhibition and if it's not on Facebook and Twitter it's like it never happened, I suppose many people would enjoy standing out. But that's because they don't have to stand out. Standing out is their luxury, not their necessity. — Rose Waldman

A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched. — Thalia

All our acts have sacramental possibilities. — Freya Stark

But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle ... — Emil Cioran

Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard. — Neil Gaiman

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation. — Steve McConnell

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. — Theodore Roosevelt

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

His sunrise mood evaporated with the dew, giving way to restlessness, disquiet. All his life, Lucius's moods had been prey to shifts of light, and now a leaden melancholy dragged at his spirits. — Peter Matthiessen

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride. — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso

When the rain (of blessing) falls, it waters all the seeds in the garden. When fertilizer is applied, it fertilizes everything growing in the field. If thorns and briers are in our hearts, prosperity will cause them to prosper also. Everything will come up together. For this reason, the Lord starts us out in a desert (spiritual or otherwise). He wants to make sure no weeds are left in our hearts. Each time we receive something new and excellent from God, it will be accompanied by a test. We have not just received a new gift or talent or capacity from God; we have also received a test on how we will use it. We can use it according to the will of God for the kingdom of God and the good of others, or we can use it for personal gain and foment our own pride and arrogance. — Russell M. Stendal