Strassen Luxembourg Quotes & Sayings

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it. — John C. Calhoun

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves — Laura Esquivel

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that. — Tom Wolfe

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing. — Richard Bach

A life awakened to God so that the world becomes our monastery. — Ken Shigematsu

Characters to the Story, — Wilkie Collins

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal. — Autumn De Wilde

It sucks when you read the script and you're like, "No, I liked that guy!" It's hard to read through the scripts sometimes, and just hope that people you like aren't gone. It scares you. — Devon Bostick

New Hampshire's one of my favorite places. — Donald Trump

I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But so do you, so don't judge. — Andy Weir

Instead, he wrote, quoting Lucretius, there were multiple worlds, where the seeds of things, in their infinite numbers, would certainly combine to form other races of men, other creatures. Each of the fixed stars observed in the sky is a sun, scattered through limitless space. Many of these are accompanied by satellites that revolve around them as the earth revolves around our sun. The universe is not all about us, about our behavior and our destiny; we are only a tiny piece of something inconceivably larger. And that should not make us shrink in fear. Rather, we should embrace the world in wonder and gratitude and awe. — Stephen Greenblatt