Unterer Letten Quotes & Sayings

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position. — Josh McDowell

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts. — Linus Torvalds

The Earth," he said, "is a large and very complex lifeboat. We still do not know what can or can't be done with a proper distribution of resources and it is notorious that to this very day we have not really made an effort to distribute them. In many places on Earth, food is wasted daily, and it is that knowledge that drives hungry men mad. — Isaac Asimov

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid. — Gene Simmons

I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it. — Lady Gregory

One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue. We must have the strength to face it without turning away. By opening to the pain we see around us with wisdom and compassion, we start to experience the intimate connection of our relationship with all beings. — Sharon Salzberg

He enjoys much who is thankful for little. — Thomas Secker

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life. — Robert L. Payton

In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I — Nicola Yoon

In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [ ... ] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application. — Dionysius Lardner