Nonnenmacher Quotes & Sayings

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business. — Oliver Goldsmith

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it ... — D. Elton Trueblood

Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work. — Ezer Weizman

Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better! — Anne Frank

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? — Gene Tierney

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. — Alexandra Bracken

It's rude to discuss religion', the Buraq sniffed. 'But I don't hold with Teatimers. I'm of the Midnight Snack school. You have tea because it's three o'clock and that's what's done and yes, yes, it's pleasant to have a nice cup and a sandwich with no crusts on, but pleasant is not enough for me! When you tuck into a Midnight Snack, it's because you're hungry in the dark. You want that bit of roast you couldn't finish at supper and you want it now. Midnight Snackery is primal, like a wolf in the wood, hunkering down over her kill. — Catherynne M Valente

Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more. — Kevin Pietersen

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.' — Curtis Jackson

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy — Carl Sagan

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. — George W. Bush

I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better. — Ronnie Radke

To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challenge of being human in an open-ended and experimental manner. Although America is a romantic project in which a paradise, a land of dreams, is fanned and fueled with a religion of vast possibility, it is, more fundamentally, a fragile experiment-precious yet precarious-of dialogical and democratic human endeavor that yields forms of modern self-making and self-creating unprecedented in human history. From Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Muhammad, Geronimo to Dorothy Day, Jane Adams to Nathaniel West, it holds out the possibility of self-transformation and self-reliance to New World dwellers willing to start anew and recast themselves for the purpose of deliverance and betterment. This purpose requires only a restlessness, energy and boldness that galvanizes people to organize and mobilize themselves in a way that makes new opportunities and possibilities credible and worth the — Cornel West

Holding on is fine, but when your skin turns pale and begins to crack and bleed, it may be time to take a look at what's in your hand. — Susan Mrosek