Stermer Auction Quotes & Sayings

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My whole life has been about risk and reward. — Michael Ovitz

I seemed to have only two speeds on problems that hit me emotionally, either putting my fingers in my ears and going la-la-la, or picking up an axe and attacking the issue. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. — Mason Cooley

You can only change according to the knowledge you have acquired. — Dr Lloyd Magangeni

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. — Nhat Hanh

Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way. — Georg Brandes

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. — Shannon Hale

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out — Joseph Heller

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place ... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build ... The Republic of Heaven. — Philip Pullman

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin ... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture. — Anton Chekhov

A man who might have been symmetrical, well-rounded, had he availed himself of every opportunity of touching life along all sides, remains a pygmy in everything except his own little specialty, because he did not cultivate his social side. It — Orison Swett Marden

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this. — Marcus Aurelius