Johannisbeeren Quotes & Sayings

I was not making enough time to take care of me. — Kathy Ireland

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins. — Irenaeus Of Lyons

Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon. — James S.A. Corey

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. — Albert Camus

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger

It was not only from Europe that so much could be learned! This modern age had provided many breasts to suckle me - from among the Natives themselves, from Japan, China, America, India, Arabia, from all the peoples on the face of this earth ... In humility, I realized I am a child of all nations, of all ages, past and present. Place and time of birth, parents, all are coincidence: such things are not sacred. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that, — Joseph Estrada

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better. — Rebecca Eaton

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains. — Paul Simon

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed. — Babatunde Fashola

History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of certain facts out of a multitude to elicit a meaningful pattern, which was not necessarily the true one? The act of selecting facts, by definition, inherently involved discarding facts as well, often the ones most inconvenient to the pattern that the historian was trying to reveal. Truth thus became an abstract concept: three different historians, working with the same set of data, might easily come up with three different "truths." Whereas myth digs deep into the fundamental reality of the spirit, into that infinite well that is the shared consciousness of the entire race, reaching the levels where truth is not an optional matter, but the inescapable foundation of all else. In that sense myth could be truer than history. — Robert Silverberg

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles. — Robert Sheaffer