Kreusch Auslese Quotes & Sayings

There has never been a great 'silent' defense — Del Harris

It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author. — Vladimir Nabokov

Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will have to be: the advertising agencies. They are entirely capable of showing us our unparalleled prosperity and our almost classless society, and no one has ever accused them of not being affirmative. Where the artist is still trusted, he will not be looked to for assurance. Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he shows them as a revelation, not of what we ought to be but of what we are at a given time and under given circumstances; that is , as a limited revelation but revelation nevertheless. — Flannery O'Connor

In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse, it seemed, with no way out. — Alan Bradley

Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself; it subsumes all living. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything... — Maximus Freeman

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume

We are respecting our parents' wishes ... They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. — Lemony Snicket

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. — Marcus Aurelius

The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are , in some ways we are not ... — Paul Auster

I can't promise you forever, Blaine. Hell, I don't even know if I can promise you tomorrow. And you deserve so much more than a fling. — Nya Rayne

I thought if you loved someone you were supposed to, like, forgive them. I thought that was what love was supposed to be all about."
Cork shook his head: "Easy to say, harder to do. — William Kent Krueger

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing. — Stephen Strasburg

Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity. — Tom Robbins