Stasiland Character Quotes & Sayings

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up. — Jessica Savitch

I didn't sleep that night. I cried. I wasn't frightened for myself; I was indignant; it was the wickedness of it that broke me. The war came to an end and I went home. I'd always been keen on mechanics, and if there was nothing doing in aviation, I'd intended to get into an automobile factory. I'd been wounded and had to take it easy for a while. Then they wanted me to go to work. I couldn't do the sort of work they wanted me to do. It seemed futile. I'd had a lot of time to think. I kept on asking myself what life was for. After all it was only by luck that I was alive; I wanted to make something of my life, but I didn't know what. I'd never thought much about God. I began to think about Him now. I couldn't understand why there was evil in the world. I knew I was very ignorant; I didn't know anyone I could turn to and I wanted to learn, so I began to read at haphazard. — W. Somerset Maugham

A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning. — Paul Kalanithi

He had become a settled effect in her spirit, a state permanently established, not continuous, but always recurring. — D.H. Lawrence

It sucks being fat, you know. — Drew Carey

Now everybody let me hear you say 'Ray Ray Ray'. Now spend all your money cause they pay pay pay. — Nicki Minaj

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

But shitty human beings sometimes make great art. — Jerry Heller

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. — David O. McKay