Schwermerei Quotes & Sayings

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways. — Caroline B. Cooney

When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes? — Lois Lowry

Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard. — Peter V. Brett

It wasn't just that Mr. Beaumont and his creepy staring was freaking me out. And it wasn't that my dad's warning was ringing in my ears. My mediator instincts were telling me to get out, now. And when my instincts tell me to do something, I usually obey. I have often found it beneficial to my health. — Meg Cabot

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? — Karen Marie Moning

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence. — Plato

The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it. — Travis Browne

The more hopeful mode suggests that emphasizing the needs and well-being of one's near-at-hand community first and foremost can be, for social conservatives, not an alternative to fighting for the soul of the larger society, but a most effective means of doing so. — Yuval Levin

From deep within the solar system a large planetoid was headed Earth's way. It was on a collision course and it was unbelievably massive - possibly the size of Mars itself. Had there been humans on Earth then they would have spotted this intruder millions of miles out. They would have watched it grow in size night after night. Soon it would have filled the sky. There would have been no escape, no reprieve. Instantly they would have been staring doom in its face as - at an oblique angle - the planetoid squashed the young Earth. — Jay Barbree

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture. — Tishuan Scott

Tell them you're pregnant with a married minister's baby, then say, "Just kidding! I'm a vampire,'" she suggested. — Molly Harper