Schweben Duden Quotes & Sayings

Discouragement is the cancer of great things. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A defeat which opens the gates of victory for you is a wonderful defeat! A victory which opens the gates of defeat for you is a horrible victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone. — Otto Weininger

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere. — Brigitte Bardot

How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth? — J.M. Stewart

I heard my old friend Clem's voice coming back to me through the dimness of thirty years: "I see you coming here trying to make sense where there is no sense. Try just living in it. Respond, alter, see what happens." I thought of the African way of perceiving life, as experience to be lived rather than as problem to be solved. — Audre Lorde

I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don't 'want' to cut down on my drinking, to pay my debts, to take enough exercise, to be faithful to my wife, etc. etc. But in another and more permanent sense I do want these things, and perhaps in the same sense I want a civilization in which 'progress' is not definable as making the world safe for little fat men. — George Orwell

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces. — Michael Kenna

Dated when we were sophomores and we've been hooking up occasionally ever since. But we came out here and I was going to end it."
" ... she just said it's over, okay? So that's it. It's over. I'm not cheating. — John Green

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing? — Nicole Krauss

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album. — Natalie Imbruglia