Thuringer Quotes & Sayings

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it. — Bryant McGill

The state of California itself was now just like me - a free-spirited liberal with a mostly sunny disposition teetering on the edge of financial ruin. (Natalie Teeger) — Lee Goldberg

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children. — Iyanla Vanzant

Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability
take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. — Brandon Sanderson

For him, life on earth is just an anteroom, or a doorway. Eternity is the real world. — Salman Rushdie

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year. — Susan Butcher

Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times. — Josh Silver

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. — William James

Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years. — Amartya Sen

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away. — Gore Vidal

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along. — Ann Leckie

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe. — Eugene J. Martin

O guide my judgment and my taste,
Sweet Spirit, author of the book
Of wonders, told in language chaste
And plainness, not to be mistook.

O let me muse, and yet at sight
The page admire, the page believe;
"Let there be light, and there was light,
Let there be Paradise and Eve!"

Who his soul's rapture can refrain?
At Joseph's ever pleasing tale
Of marvels, the prodigious train,
To Sinai's hill from Goshen's vale.

The psalmist and proverbial seer,
And all the prophets sons of song,
Make all things precious, all things dear,
And bear the brilliant word along.

O take the book from off the shelf,
And con it meekly on thy knees;
Best panegyric on itself,
And self-avouch'd to teach and please.

Respect, adore it heart and mind.
How greatly sweet, how sweetly grand,
Who reads the most, is most refind'd,
And polish'd by the Master's hand. — Christopher Smart