Overlevenden Quotes & Sayings

The important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't. — Ayn Rand

I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration ... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people. — Charles Barkley

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged. — Stevie Nicks

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics. — Nick Clegg

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy. — Hillary Clinton

It was only when children's actual economic value declined, because they were no longer necessary additions to the household labor force, that they became the priceless little treasures we know them as today. Once they started costing more to raise than they contributed to the household economy, there had to be some justification for having them, which is when the story that having children was a big emotionally fulfilling thing first started taking hold. — Laura Kipnis

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. — John Sterling

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock. — Thomas A Kempis

All power corrupts but some must govern. — John Le Carre

The french are a moral people
judged, that is, by american country club standards. — John Steinbeck

That would make an interesting story: How did you two get to be friends? Oh, she threatened to kill me ... — Karen McQuestion

He who conquers, endures. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

As a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed; that's why I avoid all animal skins. — Stella McCartney

In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender throats and sip the chill Himalayan air.
At night, low hearths will send up wispy curls of smoke fragrant with a dozen dinners, and darkness will clothe the land.
Except on nights when the moon is full. On those nights, the hillside and the valley below are bathed in a magical white light, the glow of the perpetual snows that blanket the mountaintops. On those nights I lie restless in the sleeping loft, wondering what the world is like beyond my mountain home. — Patricia McCormick