Sinnesl Schen Quotes & Sayings

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. — Lionel Blue

Nothing puts me so completely out of patience
as the utterance of a wretched commonplace
when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight.
Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well.
He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim. — Diana Gabaldon

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead

A piece of art is part of its creator, you cannot split them apart. You cannot like one and dislike another. — Sameh Elsayed

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. — Ambrose Bierce

Global warming is held accountable: people must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual. — Margaret Atwood

It's never too late to start over. If you weren't happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don't stay stuck. Do better. — Alex Elle

Just what does a virgin wife have to do to get debauched? Teena really wanted to know. Offering herself hadn't worked. Telling her husband he would be her one and only seemed to set off a state of panic. Would she have to tie Dmitri down and have her way with him? — Eve Langlais

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. — Dalai Lama

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten. — Henry Miller

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition. — Jose Manuel Barroso

I grew up in a school system ... where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted. — Harry Belafonte

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again. — Gretel Ehrlich