Schrijver System Quotes & Sayings

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday? — David Rakoff

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present — Laurie Faria Stolarz

Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock. — Joe Hill

There is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED. — Charles Darwin

I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive. — Adam Schiff

I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something. — Gia Coppola

Envy, it was often said among shicts, was the mother of human invention, — Sam Sykes

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Know why people run marathons? he told Dr. Bramble. Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human - which means it's a superpower all humans possess. — Christopher McDougall

Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit. — Iain Sinclair

People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don't eat that. If you don't know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world? — Imbolo Mbue