Margraves Of Brandenburg Quotes & Sayings

Still desiring, we live without hope. — Dante Alighieri

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. — Al Capp

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. — William Blake

Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth. — T.K. Naliaka

feeling consolation in the sense that he had found to which division of regulating principles this new circumstance could be properly referred. — Leo Tolstoy

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. You must be aware that no thing is what you have taken it to be. You have got to be in a different state from the common. — Henry David Thoreau

It is true that the modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is thanks to the generations of freethinkers, who from the Renaissance to the present day, have made Christians ashamed of many of their traditional beliefs. It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. — Bertrand Russell

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble. — St. Catherine Of Siena

She glared at him. "You're doing it again."
"What?"
"That thing that irritates me."
"Smiling?"
"Yes. That. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves. — Drew Nellins Smith