Schickeles Bach Quotes & Sayings

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard. — James G. Frazer

In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with things as they were. His chronic restlessness had fled. He wanted nothing new. He wanted only to hang on to what he had. It was almost excruciating. — Chad Harbach

At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind. — Mike Jay

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. — Tony Visconti

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape. — Thom Yorke

One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. — Jo Brand

We all need people, Theo. It doesn't matter how we find the people who matter to us; it just matters that we hold on to them — Con Riley

Briec removed his
clothes and slipped into bed with her, wrapping his arms around
her waist and snuggling her from behind.
"Izzy?"
"That's just ridiculous," he growled.
She glanced at him over her shoulder. "It could have been
worse. I could have said Gwenvael."
"And forced me to kill my own brother. — G.A. Aiken

The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible. — James L. Petigru

Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.) — A.S. King

In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same. — Eloise Dyson