Striegler Quotes & Sayings

I do not live happily or comfortably
With the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all about computers,
The news is all about bombs and blood.
This morning, in the fresh field,
I came upon a hidden nest.
It held four warm, speckled eggs.
I touched them.
Then went away softly,
Having felt something more wonderful
Than all the electricity of New York City. — Mary Oliver

Man can endure any how if he has a why. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother. — Debajani Mohanty

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more. — Erna Solberg

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own. — Douglas Crockford

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante

But there's a difference, isn't there? Between saying goodbye and death. — Beth Revis

My hubby is such a sneaker king ... and I am a stiletto queen! He always wants to see me in sneakers, but I believe I can do anything in heels. — Khloe Kardashian

French sought reforms before liberties ... They hate, not certain specific privileges, but all distinctions of classes; they would insist upon equality of rights in the midst of slavery. They respect neither contracts nor private rights; indeed, they hardly recognize individual rights at all in their absorbing devotion to the public good ... They conceived all the social and administrative reforms effected by the Revolution before the idea of free institutions had once flashed upon their mind ... Most of them were strongly opposed to deliberative assemblies, to local and subordinate authorities, and to the various checks which have been established from time to time in free countries to counterbalance the supreme government ... French nation is prepared to tolerate in a government, that favors and flatters its desire for equality, practices and principles that are, in fact, the tools of despotism. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty. — William Morris Davis