Krippenstellen Quotes & Sayings

Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her — Eva Ibbotson

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. — Epictetus

Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition. — Jack Whiteside Parsons

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back. — Donald Driver

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead? — Megan Whalen Turner

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan. — Gabrielle Reece

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves. — Joe Louis

Don't come any closer!" Scarlet yelled. The chicken clucked and dawdled away. "I will shoot, you know."
"I know." A flicker of kindness passed over him and he pointed at his temple. "You'll want to aim for the head. That usually makes for a fatal shot. Or, if you're feeling shaky, the torso. It's a larger target."
"Your head looks pretty big from here. — Marissa Meyer

It's weird how you can learn something incorrectly. — Romain Duris

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner — Friedrich Nietzsche

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

He was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave. — Wes Moore

First solve the problem. Then, write the code. — Waseem Latif