Und Friede Auf Erden Quotes & Sayings

No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies. — Adolf Hitler

As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens. — Glenn Greenwald

She looked at Will with a direct glance, full of delighted confidence.
"You approve of my going away for years, then, and never coming here again till I have made myself of some mark in the world?" said Will, trying hard to reconcile the utmost pride with the utmost effort to get an expression of strong feeling from Dorothea.
She was not aware how long it was before she answered. She had turned her head and was looking out of the window on the rose-bushes, which seemed to have in them the summers of all the years when Will would be away. — George Eliot

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues. — Dennis Kucinich

Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt. — Rick Riordan

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set. — Sophie Monk

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. — Ihara Saikaku

I mean - when was the last time someone asked if you were happy and then looked you in the eyes in a way that made you feel as though they actually gave a shit about your response? — Matthew Quick

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold Von Ranke

If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us. — Anthony Hopkins

This author has nothing but imagination ... there are people who claim that imagination has clearer and keener eyes than a wise, old mind.
Translated from: Und Friede auf Erden, (1904) (And Peace on Earth) — Karl May