Scherka Quotes & Sayings

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Die at the right time — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person. — Steve Jobs

'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today. — Jon Voight

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity. — Howard Lyman

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean De La Bruyere

It is one thing to believe and another to know. — Abhijit Naskar

They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance. — Diana Gabaldon

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. — Mary Schmich

Miss stone, I adore you. — Judith McNaught

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. — James Levine

Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher. — John Niven

They've clearly done their research on how to sell homeschooling. I don't disagree with them, though. They're weird kids, and public school will try to make them normal. I know since I was weird too. Despite the best efforts of my teachers, I remained weird yet turned out better than anyone else I knew growing up. — Bijou Hunter