Materialien Guru Quotes & Sayings

Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way - because it's had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you've got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side. — Christopher Hitchens

Spring gives hope that God believes in second chances. — Toni Sorenson

I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings. The — Wislawa Szymborska

I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own. — Paige Gray

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast. — Ian Beattie

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you — Norman Vincent Peale

Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer. — Robert Orben

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. — Malcolm Cowley

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. — Gertrude Stein

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating. — David Sanborn

[T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card of lowbrow nightlife, a symbol of middle-class prosperity, or, quite simply, a means of making a living. — Ted Gioia

I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ... Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — Thomas Hardy

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness. — James Smithson