Rundenverseries Quotes & Sayings

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography — Bruce Schneier

The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end ... it's a mystery. — Tom Stoppard

I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be. — James D. Watson

Chaol sank to his knees. — Sarah J. Maas

The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want ... I want ... ,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it. — Nancy Farmer

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. — Joel Edgerton

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Inertia is so easy - don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation. — Justina Chen Headley

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction. — Billy Graham

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it." — Plutarch

I would like to hold your hand as it holds this green leaf, yellowed, that fell early from its tree, this Autumn. And I would like to imagine that it feels your careful care, for your eyes are warmed by your heart, and I would let you sadly nestle into me as a bird folds into its nest, resigning itself to a storm. For my heart is as large as a city, and it glows with the fire that, with the right mischievous love, shall serve to inspire thousands upon thousands to inspire thousands upon thousands. — Waylon H. Lewis

As the science of economics ... exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig Von Mises

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley