Schankweiler Quotes & Sayings

I love you till kingdom come, evergreen. — Anonymous

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail. — John Sayles

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence. — P.D. James

You don't see us, but we can see you. — Mervin Ignacio

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into? — Jeremiah Burroughs

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. — Ashley Montagu

Lord, you have conquered death and triumphed over evil. There is nothing left for us to fear. Put us to work on this earth, striving for the kingdom in everything we do. Let us die to ourselves each day that we might find ourselves made new in you. Amen. — Shane Claiborne

I have a strong preference for being alive. — Alan Alda

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace. — Earl Nightingale

The Magyars were claimed to be descendants of the hideous Asiatic Scythians of legend, half men and half apes, a witches' brood begotten by devils. The sources - chronicles and annals - were all copied from one another, not on the basis of eyewitness accounts but following the characterisation of older chroniclers. Soon the "new barbarians" became identified with the Huns, who are remembered only too well in Europe. Attila had, after all, become in Western eyes the embodiment of barbarism, the anti-Christ, and at the time of the Renaissance he already appeared in Italian legends as the king of the Hungarians, constantly hatching plots, and depicted with dog ears, the bestial offspring of a greyhound and a princess locked up in a tower.12 — Paul Lendvai

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. — Max Ernst