Petunien Kaufen Quotes & Sayings

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society. — Jayson Blair

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation ... can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. — David Sedaris

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. — Rene Redzepi

It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. — Barack Obama

The only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked that enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes? They feared drys, cops, jailers, bosses, moralists, crazies, truth-tellers, and one another. they loved storytellers, liars, whores, fighters, singers, collie dogs that wagged their tails, and generous bandits. Rudy, thought Francis: he's just a bum, but who ain't? — William Kennedy

That crown on her head is very heavy, that's why she is smiling like that, smiling like she just ate a whole bunch of unripe guavas. It's heavy because it's made of gold, Godknows says.
I thought crowns were made of thorns. I saw a picture of it in the Bible, when they were killing Jesus, Sbho says. — NoViolet Bulawayo

If. A two-letter word for futility. — Sidney Sheldon

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. — Spike Jonze

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something. — Orlando Bloom

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us. — Seymour Sarason

God serves the choosy. They know what to want ... — Maxine Kumin

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night. — Lillian Hellman