Setzen Duden Quotes & Sayings

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on — Homer

I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. — Vladimir Nabokov

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power. — Millicent Fenwick

Art is as original and important as it is precisely because it does not start out with clear knowledge of what it means to say. — John Gardner

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China. — Martin Jacques

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley

Count on big lines to express your ideas. — Robert Henri

Does this have anything to do with Charlie walk-of-shaming it outta your room this morning at oh
dark-hundred? — Laura Kaye

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed? — Alix Kates Shulman

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning — Shaquille O'Neal

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe. — Ben Fountain

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences. — Martina Hingis

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend. — Nicholas A. Christakis

I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But there's no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Monsters are what they want! — Joseph Roth

Autumn

The season between summer and winter,
comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
usually the months of September,
October and November.

A period of maturity. — Cecelia Ahern