Niemand Translation Quotes & Sayings

The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south. — George R R Martin

They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? — Rick Riordan

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. — C.S. Lewis

I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can't go down to zero. It can. — Peter Cundill

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you. — Olaf Stapledon

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? — Luke The Evangelist

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Houston is my team, always and forever. But with the new TV packages, it's so easy to watch every league in the world, and my overseas fandom is driven by the American guys. If Sunderland's on TV, I'll watch Jozy Altidore. I try to watch Geoff Cameron at Stoke. When Clint Dempsey was at Tottenham, I watched a lot of his games. — Andrew Luck

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. — Oliver North

What was it that thus set so far asunder the morning of the day before yesterday and the evening of to-day? — Gustave Flaubert

That assumption - that labeling and sorting children based on gender doesn't really matter as long as everyone is treated fairly - would hold true if children only paid attention to the more overt, obvious messages we adults send. If children only listened to our purposeful messages, parenting would be easy. Most (but not all) parents and teachers take great effort in treating their children fairly, regardless of gender. Parents don't need to say to their daughters, "You probably won't enjoy math" or say to their sons, "Real boys don't play with dolls." Most parents wouldn't dream of saying these blatant stereotypes to their kids. But research has shown that when we label (and sort and color-code) by gender, children do notice. And it matters - children are learning whether you mean to be teaching them or not. — Christia Spears Brown

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. — Sarah Hall

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. — R.D. Laing