Lasselsberger Quotes & Sayings

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks. — Nadine Gordimer

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really. — Nellie McKay

It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value. — Gretchen Rubin

Being in love is arguably the least productive of human states. — Jonathan Galassi

How funny we are, I thought, the way we dance about each other, each afraid of being hurt by the other. — Judith Merkle Riley

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside. — John Elway

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten. — Cheryl Drake Harris

A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows. — Atalina Wright

The man's face, wrinkled, dark and apelike, looked up. 'He was a good pal, pore old b - ,' he said. 'You would not like, surely to goodness, to go to mess with your shoes all bloody.' 'If I had given him leave,' Tietjens said, 'he would not be dead now.' 'No, surely not,' One Seven Thomas answered. 'But it is all one. Evans of Castell Goch would surely to goodness have killed him.' 'So you knew, too, about his wife!' Tietjens said. 'We thocht it wass that,' One Seven Thomas answered, 'or you would have given him leave, cahptn. You are a good cahptn. — Ford Madox Ford

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures. — Youssef Ziedan

Do your actions define who you are, or does your purpose define why you are? — Debasish Mridha

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason. — Herbert Marcuse