Strachwitz Great Quotes & Sayings

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. "They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday," Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably. It was like being a Prisoner in a Maximum-Security Prison, wanting to know what a Visitor's hand felt like (see Living in Darkness, Cowell, 1967). No matter how desperately you wanted to know, pressing your dumb palm against the glass right where the visitor's hand was pressed on the opposite side, you never would know that feeling, not until they set you free. — Marisha Pessl

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb. — Ryan Phillippe

No matter how you imagine something to be, it's not what you imagine it to be. Any thought you have isn't real or a big deal. — Art Hochberg

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain. — Gus O'Donnell

All finery is a sign of littleness. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone. — Barack Obama

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit. — John Wesley

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty. — Rhian J. Martin

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius

finding a guy who would never jeopardize his relationship. Because it equaled his very life. Why — Kresley Cole

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with. — Milton Friedman

New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first got here, it was incredibly exciting. It was also so hot. I didn't know New York got so hot. I'm not a fan of the heat! — Matthew James Thomas

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. — Virgil Thomson