Ruschke Hans Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know what was worse: to have your shot and screw it up, or to never have had a shot in the first place. — Danielle Paige

wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex — Charles Portis

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? — Henry David Thoreau

Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went. — Alan Furst

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt

What happens when you get scared half to death twice? — Jessica Park

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood. — Amos Bronson Alcott

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her. — Edith Wharton

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. — Jessica Lange

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky

You cloud my vision and haunt my memories. I'm the light at the end of your tunnel. Let it be me. — L.J. Scar

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work. — Leo Baeck