Strisselspalt Quotes & Sayings

In a just cause it is right to be confident. — Sophocles

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it. — Christian Siriano

Colour can raise the dead. — Iris Apfel

I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, or maybe not just okay, maybe even good, and it's out there and we just haven't found it yet. There's got to be a happier ending than this, here. There's got to be a better story. Because we deserve one. You deserve one. Even if it doesn't end with you coming back to me.
Josh — Katja Millay

Louie's mother, Louise, took a different tack. Louie was a copy of herself, right down to the vivid blue eyes. When pushed, she shoved; sold a bad cut of meat, she'd march down to the butcher, frying pan in hand. Loving mischief, she spread icing over a cardboard box and presented it as a birthday cake to a neighbor, who promptly got the knife stuck. When Pete told her he'd drink his castor oil if she gave him an empty candy box. "You only asked for the box, honey," she said with a smile. "That's all I got." And she understood Louie's restiveness. One Halloween, she dressed as a boy and raced around town trick-or-treating with Louie and Pete. A gang of kids, thinking she was one of the local toughs, tackled her and tried to steal her pants. Little Louise Zamperini, mother of four, was deep in the melee when the cops picked her up for brawling. — Laura Hillenbrand

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. — Noel Coward

I used to think I had ambition ... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. — Rachel Field

It's not easy to be God. — Peter Zilahy

Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die? — Emil M. Cioran

Though their goals had been righteous, their means of anarchy would not go unpunished. — Sarah McCoy