Leerlaufspannung Quotes & Sayings

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods. — Adam Smith

Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening. — Arthur L. Herman

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. — Francis Bacon

With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. — Drew Gilpin Faust

I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. — Nancy Gibbs

Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent. — Margo Jefferson

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left. — Robert Fisk

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens. — Walter Lippmann

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified. — Christopher Pike