Maschinengewehr Des Quotes & Sayings

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. — E.B. White

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality. — Leonard Mlodinow

The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak

Was death better than an unfulfilling eternity? Why, — Lani Lenore

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War
Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. — Herman Melville

I barely even know how I didn't feel. I didn't feel like reading a newspaper, or having a coffee, or going for a jog, or watching television. Nor did I feel like crying behind the boiler in the basement. Or like trying out for something. I did't even feel like I had lost someone I deeply loved; this was different from that. I didn't feel like going to another movie and asking for extra butter on my popcorn. I didn't feel like talking to someone who would understand. — Rivka Galchen

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not. — Sydney J. Harris

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. — Jim Walsh

All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson