Nikolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf Quotes & Sayings

After a couple of kids, there might be one good friend left. And that friend is never available because she has too many kids herself. I'm amazed mothers have anyone to talk to. When a man finds out he's going to be a father, it barely covers more than twenty seconds of a conversation with his male friends. I heard you two are expecting! Congratu ... Who do you think is the best quarterback in the fourth quarter? — Jim Gaffigan

I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of the organized selfishness of Nationalism as its religion, never to gloat upon the feebleness of its neighbours, never to be unscrupulous in its behaviour to the weak, where it can be gloriously mean with impunity, while turning its right cheek of brighter humanity for the kiss of admiration to those who have the power to deal it a blow. Some of the newspapers praised my utterances for their poetical qualities, while adding with a leer that it was the poetry of a defeated people. I felt they were right. Japan had been taught in a modern school the lesson how to become powerful. The schooling is done and she must enjoy the fruits of her lessons. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes. — Ursula K. Le Guin

One breath, one moment, one day at a time. — Kirsten Beyer

Eyes changed after they looked at new things. — Betty Smith

There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder. — Robert M. Edsel

I'm a thinkin' my old man won't know de boys and de baby. Lor'! she's de biggest gal, now, - good she is, too, and peart, Polly is. She's out to the house, now, watchin' de hoe-cake. I 's got jist de very pattern my old man liked so much, a bakin'. Jist sich as I gin him the mornin' he was took off. Lord bless us! how I felt, dat ar morning!" Mrs. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time. — M. Ward

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. — Philip Kaufman

the air would get so heavy with moisture he imagined he could feel each bloated molecule as it toppled into his lungs. — Anthony Doerr

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS. — Michio Kaku

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. — Paramahansa Yogananda