Letzeburg Quotes & Sayings

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. — Kurt Vonnegut

I wish that for just one time you could I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes ... Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you. — Bob Dylan

We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style. — Terry Pratchett

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. — Mark Twain

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think. — Marjane Satrapi

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. — Erica Jong

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. — Fredrik Bajer

While growth may be unsustainable, de-growth is unstable.' Today's economic model cannot continue indefinitely. We live on a small planet. The population and the economy are growing, but the planet is not growing. — Anders Wijkman

The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

To express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere. — Edgar Cayce

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army. — John Belushi

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. — Robert Scheer

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology. — Albert Einstein

Tack didn't grin. He tugged on my arm and dragged me down the hall to his bedroom. Dinner was chips and dip, beer and tequila and good company. Dessert was Cool Whip and Tack. In other words, dessert was the bomb! — Kristen Ashley

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. — Justin Welby