Patrimonium Quotes & Sayings

money has no nationality, only people do, and generally speaking those are people who have nothing else. — Dubravka Ugresic

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker

Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Here I am, where I am supposed to be. — Isak Dinesen

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan? — Augusten Burroughs

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way. — Milan Kundera

Suppose a man falls among thieves, or wild beasts; is shipwrecked at sea by a sudden gale; is killed by a falling house or tree. Suppose another man wandering through the desert finds help in his straits; having been tossed by the waves, reaches harbor; miraculously escapes death by a finger's breadth. Carnal reason ascribes all such happenings, whether prosperous or adverse, to fortune. But anyone who has been taught by Christ's lips that all the hairs of his head are numbered [Matt. 10:30] will look farther afield for a cause, and will consider that all events are governed by God's secret plan. — John Calvin

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening. — Elizabeth Meriwether

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals — Verghese Kurien