Stralende Quotes & Sayings

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. — Chip Heath

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. — Paul Claudel

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy. — Richard Baxter

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. — Alexandre Dumas

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. — Chief Joseph

I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers. — Victoria Avilan

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up. — Sondra Radvanovsky

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy. — Judah Friedlander

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do. — Hulk Hogan

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them. — Jon Krakauer

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York. — Alan W. Livingston

It's not a question of wanting to be queen; it's not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don't care! I don't care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that's all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me. — Philippa Gregory

Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves. — Kim Harrison