Mittelmigkeiten Quotes & Sayings

Set foot on the campus and it changes you forever. It's ... "
He paused like he was searching for the right word, something I'd never seen him do before."
"It's Nerdvana!" he finally declared. — Laurie Halse Anderson

So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, 'You are beautiful?'" Tempi shook his head. "No. You would say simply 'beautiful,' and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean. — Patrick Rothfuss

O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr. — John D. MacDonald

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me. — Kristen Stewart

She trusted him? She'd barely met him. Women. Thank God I've never wanted to date one. — J.L. Merrow

He faces the burdens of belittlement a third time as he grows older, and settles into an existence that he has embraced, or that has been forced upon him. A carapace of routine, of compromise, of silent surrenders, of half-term solutions, and of diminished consciousness begins to form around him. He turns himself over to the rigidified version of the self: the character. He begins to die small deaths, many times over. He fails to die only once, which is what he would desire if he were able fully to recognize the value of life. This third encounter with belittlement reveals belittlement for what it in fact is: death by installments. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. — Barry Lopez

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. — Bertrand Russell

There are guys out there faster than me. — Carl Hagelin

Not only teachers, but all commonplace persons in authority,
desire in their subordinates that kind of uniformity
which makes their actions easily predictable and never inconvenient.
The result is that they crush initiative and individuality
when they can, and when they cannot, they quarrel with it. — Bertrand Russell

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times. — Joseph Goebbels

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset