Kopsa Otte Quotes & Sayings

And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honor or fall into great misfortune- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A lot of things can't be modeled very well. — Nate Silver

The beauty you see me is reflection of you.. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air. — Rosamund Lupton

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered. — Paul Auster

Insane! ... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? — Henry David Thoreau

One is always half mad when one is shy of people. — Robert Walser

Some words live in my throat
breeding like adders. Others know sun
seeking like gypsies over my tongue
to explode through my lips — Audre Lorde

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature. — Terence McKenna

On a cultural level, I think the absence of honest conversation about the hard work that takes us from lying facedown in the arena to rising strong has led to two dangerous outcomes: the propensity to gold-plate grit and a badassery deficit. — Brene Brown

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners. We'll call that something an idea. — Chris J. Anderson

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece. — Ted Nugent