Schreibtisch Quotes & Sayings

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. — Emmanuel Jal

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are. — Kate Bush

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson

It is worth taking the leap for something you have always wanted to do because until you try you'll never know. Through the experiences I have had and the risks I have taken, I have gained courage and confidence. I didn't start with the courage and confidence. I started with the risk. — Laura Davies

At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion. — Stephen Prothero

Genius, when young, is divine. — Benjamin Disraeli

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. — Tom Szaky

The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is. — Josh Bazell

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress. — Seth Godin

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item. — Bertrand Russell

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that. — Richard Branson