Mathias Quotes & Sayings

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened. — Mathias Rust

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards. — Mathias Rust

Don't worry about how you got here. You are here, and if you want to survive you have to keep doing everything that needs getting done. — M.R. Mathias

I like books that fit in pockets, which can lead to love, give, turn a corner, give, buy back preferred to read the passages. For me it is an important event to exchange a book you want, and give your shoes. — Mathias Malzieu

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable — Shane Eric Mathias

People may be fascinated by your wounded heart, but that won't make them love you for who you are. — Mathias Malzieu

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility. — Charles Mathias

Aboard the gondola, Giacomo Foscarini sat facing Mathias. They were crossing the Canal Grande, then they would navigate around San Marco and return. Foscarini loved to travel around Venice this way. They stopped briefly at a mooring near the bridge to the Rialto, and Foscarini had a servant fetch green olives, fresh Piacenza cheese, a few sausages from Modena, and wine that had just been delivered from Crete. The nobleman often dined aboard his gondola, looking out over the city, watching his world. "Seen from this vantage point, Venice doesn't seem like it's in any of its terrible troubles at all magister," said Foscarini. — Riccardo Bruni

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB. — Mathias Rust

Just as we shine the light of scrutiny on those around us, so must we also use it to illuminate our own lives — Shane Eric Mathias

Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn't humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline? — M.R. Mathias

Well hit a broken dream can become even more beautiful and solid. So much to shatter the limits of reality. — Mathias Malzieu

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political. — Mathias Rust

Are you a vampire, Mathias?"
He never blinked nor shifted his eyes from mine. "Yes. — Shari Richardson

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. — Mathias Dopfner

If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know ... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive. — Mathias Malzieu

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline. — Mathias Dopfner

Even in an abstract dimension, ideas built on flawed foundations will fail. — Romina Russell

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. — M.R. Mathias

Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad Karma where it is due. — M.R. Mathias

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square. — Mathias Rust

Four years later, after Mathias had killed a further four women, and he could see that all the murders were an attempt to reconstruct the murder of his mother, he concluded that he was mad. — Jo Nesbo

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. — Mathias Rust

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again! — Mathias Rust

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality. — Mathias Malzieu

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere. — Charles Mathias

My handicap will be a weapon of seduction? Do you really think so? — Mathias Malzieu

Love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly — Mathias Malzieu

You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end ... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth. — Mathias Malzieu

I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts. — Mathias Malzieu

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances. — Richard Hughes

One should never say never. — Mathias Dopfner

Will there ever come a day when you put yourself first?"
"No, that day will never come."
"You're crazy, my old man."
"It will never come because I've finally realized that I want you by my side, now and forever. That I can no longer be just myself, standing alone. I need more."
Angelica's eyes filled with tears. She looked like she was fighting to hold them back.
"You really are crazy."

-Conversation between Mathias Munster and Angelica Zanon — Riccardo Bruni

Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special — Peter Ueberroth

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight. — Mathias Rust

Love is dangerous por your tiny heart — Mathias Malzieu

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it. — Mathias Rust

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. — Mathias Rust

Mathias lifted his head and looked directly into Mina's eyes. His smile was gone. Possession filled his gaze. After tonight, you won't be asking another man for anything. — Gayle Donnelly

Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome. — M.R. Mathias

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism. — Mathias Dopfner

The highest mountains are those who admire themselves, just because they cost to climb; The ease is boring at all. P. 91 — Mathias Aires

If the pen really is mightier than the sword then you guys better watch out, because I wrote my whole 700,000 w0rd trilogy in longhand! — M.R. Mathias

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986. — Mathias Rust

I am a planet orbiting my sun," He whispered, forcing me to step closer to hear him. "I am only Mathias. — Shari Richardson

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently. — Mathias Dopfner

He thought back to everything that happened the night before: the hooded men, the chase, his tired heart and weak legs. The very moment in which Mathias realized it was over, when he'd decided to sacrifice his own life in order to save the young man by his side, the monk had found something fundamental inside himself. Deep in his soul, in that hidden place that can only be discovered when a person finds himself poised on the edge of the abyss, gasping what he thought was his last breath, he'd suddenly seen it. Only then did he realize what he held dearest in his heart. Because the last thing to cross his mind, what he'd thought about the moment he'd spun around, prepared to impale himself on the blade, had been a face. No thoughts of God or faith or any other saint. A face. That's when everything became clear. — Riccardo Bruni

Silence comes after everything. Everything is enclosed in silence. Everything is extinguished there, or falls asleep there. — Mathias Enard

A day later, when a pair of dark wolves came sniffing around, they found him. Lemmy couldn't help but giggle with delight as they tore him apart and ate him. *** — M.R. Mathias

We don't talk, we just catch fire instead. — Mathias Malzieu

As you evolve, the friends and lovers you attract will be of a higher caliber. Embrace that fact and do not be afraid to leave old relations behind if they cease to be compatible with you. — Shane Eric Mathias

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought. — Mathias Rust

Don't go," I begged, knowing I meant more than leaving the room.
"Never," he said. "Never again. — Shari Richardson

Human beings can get used to anything, even being exterminated. — Mathias B. Freese

I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms. — Mathias Malzieu

Because you are my sun. You are the light of my life and you are the voice that calls me from my dreams.
Mairin — Shari Richardson

Firstly: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. Secondly: master your anger. Thirdly: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more. — Mathias Malzieu

I don't know what you're getting yourself into," said Majid, "but I know I don't like it. Some things in Venice are pure poison." Majid's eyes looked like they could bore through a stone wall. "If someone has put you on a demon's tracks, you'd better make sure the demon doesn't find you first."

"What's that supposed to mean," asked Mathias.

"It means behind every hand stained with blood there's another, and that one stays clean." Majid leaned in close, lowering his voice to a whisper. "What I'm saying is that behind a demon, there's always someone holding the creature on a leash. — Riccardo Bruni

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time. — Charles Mathias

I don't want there to be things you "love about me", I want you to love "all of me". — Mathias Malzieu

Ignorance has produced less errors than science. P. 105 — Mathias Aires

I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. — Charles Mathias

I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands. — Mathias Malzieu

If you look deeply into my eyes, you will see my eyeballs. — M.R. Mathias

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena. — Mathias Rust

Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away. — Mathias Malzieu

I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink. — Mathias Dopfner

I have always believed that everyone has the potential to do something extraordinary if they're guided and helped along the way. — Bob Mathias

She's made for wrapping around you. — Mathias Malzieu

You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini — Riccardo Bruni

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space. — Mathias Rust

Nothing to say. I used to be a ghostwriter for a publisher.'
'Medieval stuff?'
'Eighty-page love stories. You have this guy, untrustworthy but good in bed, and this girl, radiant but innocent. In the end they fall madly in love and it's incredibly boring. The story doesn't say when they split up.'
'Of course not,' said Mathias — Fred Vargas

If you are one in a million, there are seven thousand of you on the planet. — M.R. Mathias

True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles. — Shane Eric Mathias

We remained travelers, enclosed in the self, capable, possibly, of transforming ourselves in contact with alterity, but certainly not of experiencing it profoundly. We are spies, we make the rapid, furtive contact of spies. When — Mathias Enard

Life doesn't send out invitations. Don't wait. Take risks. Be unforgettable. Be happy and live. — Kate Mathias

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages. — M.R. Mathias

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. — Mathias Rust

Her dimples are a never-ending game, her smile is always changing, I could watch her forever. — Mathias Malzieu

The copy price of the future is the copyright. — Mathias Dopfner

We see things by the way we can see, that is, confusingly, and so we almost always see them as they are not. — Mathias Aires

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs. — Mathias Dopfner

Too many of his people had returned from their travels through the realms of men with sad and pathetic tales of jealousy and hatred toward his kind. What always irritated him most about the stories was that he was as much human as he was Zythian. By all rights, he should hate himself for one half being envious of the other. — M.R. Mathias

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean. — Mathias Rust

Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"

"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."

-Conversation between Majid and Mathias — Riccardo Bruni

The church must change, Brother,' Gheorg had said one day long ago, back when they were still theology students at the University of Leipzig. Christian faith cannot be the tool of a monarch who sells God's pardon in exchange for money and power. Our Lord speaks to ALL men, Mathias. The Church must be a place where all men can meet and pray, not a place where they must submit to the power of other men. God's word must reach everyone equally. — Riccardo Bruni

The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies. — Mathias Malzieu

Whoever said that love is blind, it was wrong; vanity is more certain to be blind. — Mathias Aires

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties. — Mathias Rust

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead — Mathias Malzieu

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. — Mathias Rust

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters — Mathias Malzieu

Dissonance is a harmony. — Mathias Aires

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new. — Mathias Dopfner

We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives. — Shane Eric Mathias

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism. — Mathias Rust