Sprachen Europas Quotes & Sayings

And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of tea and I told him no, I don't want tea I want coffee. That was great. I really asserted my authority."
"Did he go and get you a coffee?"
"No, he said he'd already made of a pot of tea so I took the tea because, you know, he'd already made it, but my authority was still firmly asserted. — Derek Landy

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all. — Og Mandino

There is no "can't" in martial arts. It is perfectly all right for students to state that they are "still working on it", "have not mastered it yet", or "are trying as best they can" as all of those sentiments reflect willingness and perseverance. It is not all right, on the other hand, to verbally or physically portray reluctance, vacillation, or defect. — Lawrence Kane

An excellent choice to pair the scarpatine with the potato, Your Highness. They are better together than apart. — Grace Draven

Guys don't like chicks who are down all the time. — Melina Marchetta

I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.
[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816] — Thomas Jefferson

I hope that if love hurts, it teaches you something about yourself or about someone else. — Iain S. Thomas

Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her! — Neil Gaiman

Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know? — Zach Braff

I can't see where I'm going if I only look where I've been, my good man! — Lisa Mantchev

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found. — Ilchi Lee

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes? — Melissa M