Sebald Code Quotes & Sayings

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. — Fritz Sauckel

With the sort of power these new processes granted them, the members of the brotherhood were in the perfect position to seize power. In any other country, a massive, bloody war would have ensued. Horrors would have stalked the land, unholy amalgamations of flesh would have fought on the fields, and the nights would have new, unspeakable terrors.
Fortunately, this is Belgium we're talking about. — Daniel O'Malley

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. — Benjamin Franklin

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery. — Jeremy Griffith

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. — Confucius

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self. — John Buchan

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. — Alfred Adler

Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going. — Wilfred Owen

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated. — James Tooley

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. — John Paul Stevens

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world. — Ann Hood

Stop worrying about people who see your path as a rejection of theirs, 'Cause that ain't your problem. — Dawn Keable

Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party. — Jay Leno

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. — Jackson Browne

He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately. Should never think about him again, except maybe as a client
and her prince.
And yet, the memory of his fingers against her skin refused to fade. — Marissa Meyer