Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. — Robin McKinley

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. — Alice Foote MacDougall

Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. — Seneca.

You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was - is - dead and scaring us? — J. Cameron McClain

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. — Heraclitus

It follows that a tender heart that reaches for love and understanding is often the easiest to break. Hearts that are open and trusting are usually the ones that are wounded the most. This world is filed with men and woman who have rejected the love offered to them from a heart that is gentle and tender. Those strong, hard-shelled hearts that trust no one, hearts that give so little, hearts that demand love be constantly proved, hearts that are always calculating hearts that are always manipulating and self-serving, hearts that are afraid to risk are the ones that seldom get broken. They don't get wounded, because there is nothing to wound. They are too proud and self-centered to allow anyone else to make them suffer in any way. They go about breaking other hearts and trampling on the fragile souls who touch their lives, simply because they are so thick and dull at heart themselves, and they think everyone should be just as they are. — David Wilkerson

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice. — J. C. Watts

Yours in life, Kishan."
"Yours in death, Dhiren — Colleen Houck

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself. — Chuck Palahniuk

But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light. — Julie Otsuka

The hypothesis behind invisible writings was laughably complicated. All books are tenuously connected through L-space and, therefore, the content of any book ever written or yet to be written may, in the right circumstances, be deduced from a sufficiently close study of books already in existence. Future books exist in potentia, as it were, in the same way that a sufficiently detailed study of a handful of primal ooze will eventually hint at the future existence of prawn crackers. — Terry Pratchett

No wonder tobacco shops have a predilection for corners, for — Vladimir Nabokov

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. — Mark Thomas