Spitaler Gottesacker Quotes & Sayings

I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you. — Orson Scott Card

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. — H.M. Tomlinson

Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle — Yuu Watase

That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind."
"Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier."
"Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain."
"General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch. — Richelle Mead

When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job. — Ryan Reynolds

Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul. — C. A. Bartol

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare. — Theodore Roosevelt

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own. — Kevin DeYoung

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. — Frans De Waal

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars. — Woodrow M. Kroll

It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. — Marie Antoinette

To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources. — Walter Pater

It's not enough to open the window
To see the fields and the river.
It's also not enough to not be blind
To see the trees and the flowers.
It's also necessary to not have any philosophy at all.
With philosophy there are no trees, there are only ideas.
There's only each of us, like a wine-cellar.
There's only a shut window and the world outside it;
And a dream of what you could see if you opened the window,
Which is never what you see when you open the window. — Alberto Caeiro