Langenscheidt German English Quotes & Sayings

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. — Thomas Carlyle

Don't stay stuck on the people who've hurt you. Move on and let your future give you the better that you deserve. — Trent Shelton

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)] — Alan Bennett

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine. — Jackson Browne

From time to time, Ebony and I also ran credit card scams. — Jessica N. Watkins

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. — Learned Hand

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. — Zig Ziglar

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals. — Evel Knievel

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. — Benito Mussolini

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair. — Georgia Douglas Johnson

There is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of the Lord. We are characterized by whether we respond zealously or lackadaisically to the kindly dispensations of God. This perspective is plainly expressed in the healing of the two blind men. Jesus was passing by, a fact made possible by God's provident grace. And the achievement of their own faith and belief was to cry out 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on us' (Mt. 20:31). The restored sight of their eyes is the gift of divine mercy. — John Cassian

In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness. — Charles Shaar Murray