Pfeilerartiger Quotes & Sayings

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. — Henry Rollins

I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work. — Katherine McNamara

Celestial light, shine inward ... that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight — John Milton

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence. — R.C. Sproul

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln

You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.
~Caillen, page 243. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I couldn't miss the irony, not as a forty-two-year-old native of the segregated South, still fighting to earn respect in the color-conscious world of American business. How often had my parents and grandparents, other family members and friends, and I myself been directed to the back door of a bus, a restaurant, or a theater because we were considered second class, even after paying a first-class price for service! But that night we were treated to courtesies that even President Nixon could not enjoy: entering through the lobby, approaching the front desk, quietly registering, and being assisted to our room by the highly trained wait staff. A familiar portion of a Bible verse came to mind. The last shall be first and the first last (Matt. 20:16). — John Barfield

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity. — Jean Baudrillard

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. — Henry David Thoreau

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind — Elizabeth Sims

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! — John Dryden

How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. — John F. Kennedy

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. — Tommy Lasorda