Uregelmessige Quotes & Sayings

Nations, like people, are often more pragmatic than they know or can explain. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing. — Edwin Boring

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration - it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. — Tim Kreider

I've always been conservative. I was born that way. — Ralph Hall

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. — Merlin Olsen

When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men. — Margo St. James

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu

But even bitterness fades away eventually. We both have to believE that. Don't we? — Sophie Kinsella

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society. — Rob Walton

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man ... If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages. — Robert Louis Stevenson