Trippd Quotes & Sayings

Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such
an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive. — Karl Jaspers

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who in turn will grow old and need ever more young people and so on, ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme. — David Attenborough

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. — Napoleon Bonaparte

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much ... — Lewis Carroll

Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera) — Alexandre Dumas

You learn to know a pilot in a storm. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov

Well, it's all a kind of puzzle, isn't it? You start out with your own little set of pieces you're trying to fit together, then you get married and it's a lot more pieces, way more than double in my opinion, and next thing you have kids and all of a sudden there are too many pieces for the table, and more showing up every day." He gave a small dry laugh. "I suppose the Buddhists and them would say you just got to appreciate the ever-changing thinginess of the puzzle. — Tom McNeal

I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. — Aleksandr Vasilevsky

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. — Joseph Stalin

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. — Peter Sellers

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. — Maxim Gorky

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I thought it out this very day,
Noon upon the clock,
A man may put pretence away
Who leans upon a stick,
May sing, and sing until he drop,
Whether to maid or hag ... — William Butler Yeats