Orientalische Sitzecke Quotes & Sayings

Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of oncoming wave. — Tom Gillaspy

Ex-girlfriends are like car wrecks. You shouldn't want to know the details, but you do. — Allison Van Diepen

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements. — Thomas Sowell

The Classical Study (3)

The Master has forgotten his hat.
Without his hat he cannot fly.
Without his hat his dreams escape
up.

Without his hat he cannot tip
his hat to that woman passing by
whom he remembers
from somewhere, as in a dream,

a room in a dream or maybe a beach,
a beach by the sea,
blindingly white,
hatless, he and she. — Michael Palmer

There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid — Isabel Allende

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through. — Larry McMurtry

The guy had literally been through hell and back. Even when he wasn't trying, he made the toilets explode. What would Percy be like if he wanted to act scary? — Rick Riordan

Yet the Bible also talks about diseases, both of the body and mind, and Jesus heals these diseased people. Ergo, while it is true that we can all be made in God's image theologically, it is also true theologically that there are attributes of our makeup which are not Holy, and which need to be healed or gotten rid of, physical and mental disorders and affectations comprising some of these, and our sinful nature comprising the rest. Chunk — Thomas Taylor

I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants — Charles Dickens

Family is what works. — Ian McDonald

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny. — George Saunders