Liebenswert English Quotes & Sayings

Why is it, she thought, that people always leave us just before we know them? — Robert Jackson Bennett

I'd never seen a creature with so many freckles before. A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and drifting to every end of her curved, warm-blooded universe. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. — Henry James

We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists. — Patrick Henry

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century. — Joseph McCabe

"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion." — George W. Bush

Everything is an experiment. — Tibor Kalman