Peikert Johann Quotes & Sayings

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound. — Samuel Pepys

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. — Kurt Vonnegut

With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind and not wasting your time on various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip. — Dalai Lama XIV

Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking. — Albert Einstein

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences. — John Bowlby

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows. — Ben Stiller

Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob. — Bing Crosby

If you want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon. — Esther Hicks

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return. — Rick Riordan

You will live as you live in any world ... With difficulty, and grief. — Catherynne M Valente

nobody knows what happened inside, — Anonymous

I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me. — Rick Riordan