Stechschulte Quotes & Sayings

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is ... is freedom. — Johnny Depp

A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire. — Laurence Freeman

The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one's personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others. — Abhijit Naskar

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future. — Diane Duane

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices. — Pearl Cleage

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn. — Charles Bukowski

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes ... — Francis Kurkdjian

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks. — Nik Wallenda

We need a continuing presence in space. — Alan Shepard

Please," Professor Solanka asked. "Just tell me."
"That's the worst part," Dubdub said. "There's nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause. You wake up one day and you aren't a part of your life. You know this. Your life doesn't belong to you. Your body is not, I don't know how to make you this the force of this, yours. there's just life, living itself. You don't have it. You don't have anything to do with it. That's all. It doesn't sound like much, but believe me. It's like when you hypnotize someone and persuade them there's a big pile of mattresses outside their window. They no longer see a reason not to jump. — Salman Rushdie

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric. — Dana Spiotta

A little praise goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson