Schmalfeldt Abt Quotes & Sayings

May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nobody would believe that Richard left evening pleasures promptly because it gave him longer in his valet's company, that he took such care over his clothing because it made two hours' dressing with Cyprian unexceptional. That he would rather talk to a liveried servant than to any of the gentlemen who were his closest friends. — K.J. Charles

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations. — Jean Giraudoux

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid. — Christopher Peterson

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it. — Don Bluth

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well. — Mary Jo Putney

Anxiety ruins everything, if you don't be in such position you will better as a human kind. — Deyth Banger

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still. — William Blake

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

We need to know the truth of that, pray to understand that death is just the false belief that anything could ever end. There's no going anywhere for any of us, not in reality. There's only changing how you see things." I — Emily Fridlund

In Paris, it's common to acknowledge someone attractive. The French don't avert their gaze like other cultures do. Haven't you noticed? — Stephanie Perkins

The whole process of claiming a colony (on land already occupied by other people) is awfully arbitrary in the first place. Essentially, the British built their empire by sailing around and sticking flags on random beaches. — Randall Munroe

Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly. — Rick Cook

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself. — Diane Von Furstenberg

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. — Philip Sidney