Schiffmacher Tattoo Quotes & Sayings

Let him who would move the world first move himself. — Socrates

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about. — Miyamoto Musashi

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again. — Carl Sandburg

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. — Chuck Schumer

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche. — Eric Hoffer

The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then. — Eeva Lancaster

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. — David Ives

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. — Derek Jacobi

You feel like you dropped the tent."
"What tent?"
"A tent you were carrying through winter drifts taht wasn't even yours. And you didn't feel the weight until the strap broke and it fell into the snow. You look back, and it's a broken thing with cracked poles and worn hides. You were only carrying it because you needed shelter in case the blizzard came. But there was no blizzard. And once it's gone, it's easy to get through the snow by yourself. — Paul R. Hardy

For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally. — Theo James