Regensburger Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be — Aldous Huxley

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. — Henri Matisse

[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system. — Ben Bernanke

Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in you as engaging and healthy and warm, and not so silly as it might seem. Only why do you all behave like this? While a man is healthy and strong and in good spirits, you pay him no attention, but as soon as he rolls down the slippery slope and starts complaining about his woes, you hang on his neck. — Anton Chekhov

Your true home is in the here and the now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

A good cry is like a good rain ... Afterwards everything is washed clean, and for awhile, you can see for miles. — Jax Peters Lowell

Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.' I — Max Porter

Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm. — Debasish Mridha

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing. — David A.R. White

And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim's face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives. — Louis MacNeice

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. — John Webster

Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched. — Frank McCourt