Siebler Schmeichel Quotes & Sayings

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. — Plautus

Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now avoided talking or thinking about it. Thinking about it led him into doubts and prevented him from seeing what he should and should not do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he unceasingly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge deciding which of two actions was the better and which the worse; and as soon as he did what he should not have done he immediately felt this. In this way he lived, not knowing or seeing any possibility of knowing what he was or why he lived in the world. — Leo Tolstoy

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have. — Ralph Ellison

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes. — G.A. Aiken

I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us. — John James Cowperthwaite

I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death. — Yann Martel

There stands the parable; there stands the sacred metaphor of belonging, one heart to another. WIthout the metaphor of memory and history, we cannot imagine the life of the Other. We cannot imagine what it is to be someone else. Metaphor is the reciprocal agent, the universalizing force: it makes possible the power to envision the stranger's heart. — Cynthia Ozick