Schopenwho Quotes & Sayings

The inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips with it. — Robert McNeil

It's been said that the entire philosophical foundation of Zen is contained in three small words: "Not always so." If you want to stop emotional eating (which means you'll eat only out of physical hunger, which means you'll eventually be the right weight for your body) you must become willing to apply those three words to your own beliefs. THE — Martha N. Beck

Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world.
They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents. — Heather Crews

Lila had been the water flowing over the jagged rocks of her anger & fear, smoothing them out with her infinite patience. — Vivi Andrews

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. — Sharen Song

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means. — Vaclav Klaus

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth. — Charles Krauthammer

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace. — John McKnight

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole. — Ian McKellen

It is one of the Laws of the Universe that when you need a big hole to swallow you up, it is never there. — Poppy Inkwell

That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliage. You might want to separate the branches in different rooms and apply some elementary game theory."
"Question a plant?"
"Trees have a will too, just like people. We have to know it's purpose. Read Schopenhauer."
"Schopenwho?"
"He was the only authentic German. You might like him. Being a police officer, you're undoubtedly familiar with the need to put an end to the lives of the perverse when sex crimes go too far. Now just generalize that necessity to every human being. — Benson Bruno

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. — Karen Armstrong

only dead 'cause of Ian or Esther Little — David Mitchell

What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning. — Erik Larson