Potatismos Quotes & Sayings

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. — Michel De Montaigne

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers. — Edward Burns

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well. — Clemence Poesy

So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding. — Nafisa Haji

He clenches his jaw, twisting and turning as he looks for some way out of this. But there isn't one. I don't expect him to forgive me, and I don't deserve it either. But his hand closes ovdf mine, holding on to the last person on his side.
Slowly he starts to hum. I recognize the tune as the sad song, the one we kissed to in a room full of moonlight. — Victoria Aveyard

Sombart ignored the powerful mystical element in Judaism. He refused to recognize, as did Weber, that wherever these religious systems, including Judaism, were at their most powerful and authoritarian, commerce did not flourish. Jewish businessmen, like Calvinist ones, tended to operate most successfully when they had left their traditional religious environment and had moved to fresh pastures. — Paul Johnson

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. — J.K. Rowling