Schwertlilien Quotes & Sayings

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect — Brian Eno

I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just ... that's hurting the work, because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly. — Shane Carruth

On a personal level, to think in time is to accept the uncertainty of life as the necessary price of being alive. To rebel against the precariousness of life, to reject uncertainty, to adopt a zero tolerance to risk, to imagine that life can be organized to completely eliminate danger, is to think outside time. To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity. — Lee Smolin

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year. — John Hunter

The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them. — Sunday Adelaja

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

It would not interfere with your being a nun. I live like an evil-minded monk myself. — J.D. Salinger

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven. — Dorothy Parker

People do business with people who make them feel special. — Robin Sharma

Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there! — Israelmore Ayivor

The northern public immediately assumed that Douglas was handing Kansas to the South as another slave state because proslavery emigrants from Missouri were certain to dominate its politics. In the ensuing uproar the disintegrating Whig Party disappeared altogether, and a new antislavery Republican Party was born. — Norman K. Risjord

Mr. Roark, I'm so sorry about - " she hesitated demurely " - about what happened this morning. — Ayn Rand

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight. — Kyle Schmalenberg