Unrecht Quotes & Sayings

Poorly written novels
no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters
are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. — Flannery O'Connor

The triumph of vegetation is total. — Michel Houellebecq

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words. — Wilfred Funk

Because it's all relative. You're pinned down in some filthy hellhole of a paddy, getting your ass delivered to kingdom come, but then for a few seconds everything goes quiet and you look up and see the sun and a few puffy white clouds, and the immense serenity flashes against your eyeballs - the whole world gets rearranged - and even though you're pinned down by a war you've never felt more at peace. — Tim O'Brien

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical. — Randy Pausch

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction. — Augustine Of Hippo

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom. — Norman Lock

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. — Bill Cosby