Schakelklok Quotes & Sayings

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda

Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you. — Kathleen Glasgow

An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny. — G.K. Chesterton

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. — Julia Ward Howe

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. — Ezekiel Emanuel

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. — Fran Lebowitz

The short and obscene sentence of Poseidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the cord touched by the finger accounts for the infinite miracle of sounds. Such a dictum is less an insult to pleasure than to the flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that red-tinged cloud whose lightning is the soul. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman. — L. Ron Hubbard

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries. — Ahmed Zewail

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got. — Ricky Gervais

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. — Marius Vieth