Lemberka Quotes & Sayings

Money ... is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money. — Gertrude Stein

As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the man's world and I have to do that if I want to survive modern life. Conversely, men have to take things from the woman's world to survive. It's a very beautiful thing that you have to mold your own gender nowadays. But it's a very stressful thing for us. — Pernille Fischer Christensen

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. — Theodore Parker

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?' — Lena Olin

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? — Thomas Hooker

In true prose everything must be underlined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. — Jay McInerney

That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure. — Ali Smith

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth. — William J. Clinton

There is a purpose in life
to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found. — John Andreas Widtsoe

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone. — John Brown

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — G.K. Chesterton

The stamps on the envelope were English. One was the head of a statesman engraved in purple and the others were motorcars engraved in blue. It seemed like every country in the world had stamps of statesmen and motorcars. Where were the stamps of the elevator boys and hapless housewives? Of the six-story walk-ups and soured wine? — Amor Towles