Sammlung Philippi Quotes & Sayings

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies. — Jean Ferris

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. — Ridley Scott

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies. — Gunilla Brodde Norris

And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time. — Rainer Maria Rilke

And sure enough, even waiting will end ... if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well. — Martin Cooper

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out. — Brendon Urie

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies. — George Singleton

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends. — Bob Saget

And was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman. — R. H. Tawney

We already have posterity," I said.
"When?'
"We were babies and we grew old — Edwidge Danticat

I'd prefer a world with no identity politics. I'd prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing — Milo Yiannopoulos

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding? — Kathleen Raine