Stiefel Quotes & Sayings

For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking ... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures. — Dalai Lama

I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger. — Richard Wright

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel! - Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be no men left in the world. — Frank Wedekind

Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping about freedom of the press and keeping the paper going, but if he'd had a million dollars and all the freedom in the world he'd still put out a worthless newspaper because he wasn't smart enough to put out a good one. He was just another noisy little punk in the great legion of punks who marched between the banners of bigger and better men. Freedom, Truth, Honour - you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
I stood up. "Ed," I said using his name for the first time, "I believe I'll quit. — Hunter S. Thompson

She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still. — Tess Gerritsen

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things. — John Haines

To be missed, disappear for a while, but not for a long while, or else you shall be forgotten! And the sun practice this very well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income. — Sandra Lerner

Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play. — Adrian Dawson

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates

Being gentle or soft does not mean you are weak. It means just the opposite. It means you are strong. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence, 525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it him-selve. — Geoffrey Chaucer