Spannteppich Quotes & Sayings

The will was the main target of bitterness — Paulo Coelho

It was too long ago; she couldn't recall the feelings of love, only remember that she'd had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. — Sarah Painter

Of course the Catholic ethic was an ethic of intentions. But the concrete intentio of the single act determined its value. And the single good or bad action was credited to the doer determining his temporal and eternal fate. Quite realistically the Church recognized that man was not an absolutely clearly defined unity to be judged one way or the other, but that his moral life was normally subject to conflicting motives and his action contradictory. — Max Weber

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. — Jacques Lacan

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. — Haruki Murakami

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people. — Simon Sinek

Nothing better between five and seven than to be pushed around in that throng, to follow a leg or a beautiful bust, to move along with the tide and everything whirling in your brain. A weird sort of contentment in those days. No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough. The golden period, when I had not a single friend. — Henry Miller

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. — Jack Prelutsky

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you. — Swami Vivekananda

Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she's going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I'd rather just have one in his right mind. — L.M. Montgomery

Git'er Done
They beat their swords upon their shields
To no beast or man would they yield — Muse

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. — Elie Wiesel