Strafbar Symbol Quotes & Sayings

Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things, to their ideas; yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination. Should the story say 'he ate bread', the dramatic producer or painter can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own. If a story says 'he climbed a hill and saw a river in the valley below', the illustrator may catch, or nearly catch, his own vision of such a scene; but every hearer of the words will have his own picture, and it will be made out of all the hills and rivers and dales he has ever seen, but especially out of The Hill, The River, The Valley which were for him the first embodiment of the word. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment. — Edmund Phelps

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila — Robert M. Pirsig

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day. — Donald Trump

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. — Madame De Stael

Patience brings perseverance. — Sunday Adelaja

My wife loved games, mostly mind games, but also actual games of amusement, — Gillian Flynn

Forever. Yeah, right. — Claire Contreras

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people ... The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off. — Albert Pierrepoint

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us. — Nathan Wolfe

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't. — Fiona Apple

Strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes. — Felix Salten