Thewalk Quotes & Sayings

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. — Elie Wiesel

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills. — Janette Turner Hospital

I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer. — Irvine Welsh

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. — Clifford D. Simak

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself. — Sister Parish

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. — Theodor Adorno

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. — Gregory Bateson