Rudolf Jaenisch Quotes & Sayings

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal. — James Frey

As Tick writes in War and the Soul, "Our society must accept responsibility for its warmaking. To the returning veterans, our leaders and people must say, 'you did this in our name and because you were subject to our orders, we lift the burden of your actions from you and take it onto our shoulders. We are responsible for you, for what you did and the consequences. — Kevin Sites

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to. — Joan Larkin

But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads — Gayle Forman

Perfection is not very communicative — Yo-Yo Ma

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically. — Bruno Dumont

But we don't think too well when we want too much. — Marie Rutkoski

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me. — Clare Balding

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. — Gloria Steinem

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with. — Sara Davidson

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. — Desmond Tutu

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler

This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track. — Don DeLillo

It was moments like this that made me realize that love was just a feeling in which we all felt the need to desire, but if it wasn't reciprocated was it still love then? When it's so toxic but you hold on still, was it an addiction — Zoya