Spengense Quotes & Sayings

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. — Paul Verlaine

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that. — John Lennon

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it. — Jude Morgan

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose. — Thomas More

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer. — John Piper

But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored. — Laura Esquivel

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool. — Rudyard Kipling

I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.' — Denise Di Novi

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. — Philip Larkin

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women. — Gabriel Byrne

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. — Svetlana Alliluyeva