Retrofitted Mobile Quotes & Sayings

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Seeing the open pits in the open air, among farms, is the wonder, and seeing the bodies twist free from the soil. The sight of a cleaned clay soldier upright in a museum case is unremarkable, and this is all that future generations will see. No one will display those men crushed beyond repair; no one will display their loose parts; no one will display them crawling from the walls. Future generations will miss the crucial sight of ourselves as rammed earth. — Annie Dillard

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality. — Signe Baumane

The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day. — Charles Dickens

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree. — Ming-Dao Deng