Schenken Quotes & Sayings

Let girls be girls and not brides — Desmond Tutu

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me. — Chet Atkins

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity. — Xunzi

You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth. — Ruskin Bond

I make comedies and I always try ... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things. — Alexander Payne

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze. — Ramana Maharshi

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and ... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains. — Archilochus

I didn't feel like I'd really won anything, but I had come through the day no worse off than I'd come into it, which, as I have been telling myself for many years now, is a victory whether it feels like one or not. — John Darnielle

It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken. — John Elder Robison

What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue? — Richard Dawkins

If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other. — Marilynne Robinson

At some stage in your life you need to stop fighting for others and look at who fights for you. Only then you will truly know who to cherish and who to fight for. — Albert Besselaar