Roswita Toepfer Quotes & Sayings

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later. — Richard Brookhiser

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. — Kate Mosse

By all measures men are the more violent gender. — Steven Pinker

Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correct
a nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion and
urgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protect
its religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish Holy
Land of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades made
right. — Scott Anderson

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now. — Kayla Krantz

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence. — Charles Dickens

Ah, it's too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It's like picking your favorite from a box of chocolates - I love all of them. — Mitt Romney

No sane society chooses to commit national suicide. — John F. Kennedy

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits. — John Calvin

He's soft and strong at the same time; beautiful and cold like a polished japanese katana. — Kazuma Kodaka

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. — Anthony Doerr