Servietten Quotes & Sayings

I am composed of a body and a soul. Things that happen to the body are meaningless. It cannot discriminate among them. Nothing has meaning to my mind except its own actions. Which are within its own control. And it's only the immediate ones that matter. Its past and future actions too are meaningless. — Marcus Aurelius

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice. — Anthony Bourdain

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen. — H.G.Wells

A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils. — James Hannaham

I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life. — Kaniehtiio Horn

Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man. — William Least Heat-Moon

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. — Man Ray

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line. — Martin O'Malley

It will be a long while until I shall call myself well. I think perhaps too long - longer than I have left to live. But for now, I feel a great deal better than I did, and that is enough. — G. Willow Wilson

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. — David Gemmell

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts. — Elizabeth Hurley

Clay, if anyone followed anyone, it was me tagging along after you. I didn't dare order you around."

"Load of shit," he muttered, but she thought she heard a softening in his tone. "You fucking made me attend tea parties."

She remembered his threat before the first one: "Tell anyone and I'll eat you and use your bones as toothpicks."

~ Talin and Clay dialogue — Nalini Singh

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] — George Orwell

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can. — Tim Duncan

It's always important to be yourself. — Leighton Meester