Matthias Jakob Schleiden Quotes & Sayings

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. — Booker T. Washington

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces. — Temple Grandin

In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] — Ovid

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Okay, Caroline said. She didn't sound as frightened as everybody else. That was the advantage to having no imagination, Bonnie thought. You couldn't picture the terrible things that were going to happen to you. — L.J.Smith

It's all over, it's all over,' I muttered to myself. My grief resembled that of a fainthearted student who has failed an examination: I made a mistake! I made a mistake! Simply because I didn't solve that X, everything was wrong. If only I'd solved that X at the beginning, everything would have been all right. If only I had used deductive methods like everyone else to solve the mathematics of life. To be half-clever was the worst thing I could have done. I alone depended upon the inductive method, and for the simple reason I failed. — Yukio Mishima

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. — Flannery O'Connor

That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it. — Scott Speer

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it.
Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort,
rest naturally as the Unborn Mind.
Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha. — Bankei Yotaku

You have the potential for becoming air;
as still, as necessary, just there. — Hima Raza

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. — Zora Neale Hurston

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. — Teena Marie

The female crab has an impenetrable shell, she is so hard on the outside and yet so soft within. There is no possible point of access. The male crab must wait a whole year until the female decides to shed her shell to grow a new one. And it is only at that moment of vulnerability that the patient crab can triumph in his love. — Danny Scheinmann