Leberecht Maass Quotes & Sayings

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. — W. Somerset Maugham

A lawsuit is the suicide of time. — Thomas A. Edison

Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to preach to people. — Will.i.am

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women. — Brigitte Bardot

I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing. — Nathan Fillion

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world. — Lily Cole

So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific. — Jodi Picoult

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. — Stefan Zweig

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way. — Thich Nhat Hanh

[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ... — William Morris

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! — Stella Adler

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes. — Ramona Koval

Son unas cualquieras, she mutters. Nobodies. No culture, no family life, illiterates, she means. The kind of people who make her cross to the other side of the street if she meets them in the dark on payday. They're her worst nightmare of what a Latin girl can become in the United States. Their big hoop earrings and plucked eyebrows, their dark lips painted like those stars in the old black-and-white movies, their tight T-shirts that show too much curve and invite boys' touches. — Meg Medina