Podemskis Standard Quotes & Sayings

All the warning signs were there, I was just too clueless and too enamored to notice. — E.L. James

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. — George S. Kaufman

[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks. — Georg Brandes

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt

I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure. — David Douglas Duncan

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary. — Heinrich Himmler

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them. — Matthew Henry