Matusiak Katrin Quotes & Sayings

It is not so important that it should be correct - that can only come later - , but unless one's thinking is all-of-a-piece there is, properly speaking, no thinking at all. A person who simply makes a collection - however vast - of ideas, and does not perceive that they are at variance with one another, has actually no ideas of his own; and if one attempts to instruct him (which is to say, to alter him) one merely finds that one is adding to the junk-heap of assorted notions without having any other effect whatsoever. As Kierkegaard has said, 'Only the truth that edifies is truth for you.' (CUP, p. 226) Nothing that one can say to these collectors of ideas is truth for them. What is wanted is a man who will argue a single point, and go on arguing it until the matter is clear to him, because he sees that everything else depends upon it. With such a person communication (i.e., of truth that edifies) can take place. — Nanavira Thera

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life. — Leo Tolstoy

Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad. — Daniel Tosh

The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too. — Jay Leno

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one. — John Barrasso

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire. — Birdman

There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence. — Richard Brautigan

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. — Henry Miller

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order — Judith Lennox

When you create a lifestyle from a dream, you provide no room left; for failure. — Nikki Rowe

I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to. I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. — T. S. Eliot

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare. — Stefan Heym

We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students. — Kenny Marchant

I'm my own toughest opponent. So I talk to myself. I curse at myself. I pump myself up. Whatever it takes to do. I don't really give a damn how it looks really because when I'm in the moment I need to be me. — Victoria Azarenka