Lesekreis Quotes & Sayings

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people. — Ernest Hemingway,

To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone has it. — Michael Kelahan

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. — Mike Birbiglia

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains. — Jonathan Edwards

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. — Jim Butcher

Only redeemed children of God can become redeemers for their people — Sunday Adelaja

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. — Anne Rice

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. — Joyce Carol Oates

The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war. — Aleksandar Hemon

Justice delayed is not necessarily justice denied. There will come a day when God will settle accounts and people will be held responsible for the evil they've perpetrated and the suffering they've caused. Criticizing God for not doing it right now is like reading half a novel and criticizing the author for not resolving the plot. God will bring accountability at the right time - in fact, the Bible says one reason he's delaying is because some people are still following the clues and have yet to find him.15 He's actually delaying the consummation of history out of his great love for them. — Lee Strobel

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously. — Dennis Prager

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone. — Frank Macfarlane Burnet

I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse. — Thomas Browne

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do. — Tony Abbott