Steppdecken Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever been in a temple and seen men kneeling silently, reverently, their souls raised to the greatest height they can reach? To the height where they know they are clean, and clear, and perfect? When their spirit is the end and the reason of all things? Then have you wondered why that has to exist only in a temple? Why men can't carry it also into their lives? Why, if they can know the height, they can still want to live less than the highest? That's what we want to live, you and I. — Ayn Rand

We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved. — Elizabeth Peyton

So, you still a Satanist?" Luci asked to change the topic.

"Oh, your mother told you?" Dad sighed and shrugged. "I don't really worship the devil if that's what you're thinking. It's more of a philosophy. Why, you're Christian, or something?"

"I don't think God would approve of my lifestyle, so I was looking the other way. Maybe it's something I could get into, the Satanist thing. — K.A. Merikan

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters. — W. Somerset Maugham

People are clocks who think they wind themselves. — Catherynne M Valente

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. — John Updike

One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team. — Blake Mycoskie

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another. — Hans F. Sennholz

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug. — William S. Burroughs

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. — Abraham Lincoln

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them. — Jerry Spinelli

Why do you ... keep tantalizing me?
I tell you, Tess, I'd take you for a flirt,
For a sit you could catch,
If I didn't know just honest and pure you are. — Thomas Hardy