Varenka Paschke Quotes & Sayings

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gifted."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 32 — Russel H.S. Stolfi

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror. — Lysander Spooner

I've always wanted to do a lot of things. — Sam Underwood

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. — Chris Patten

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it. — Jessica Biel

They spend time. That's just it. They spend time traveling. The time weighs heavily on them because they lack any context, any valid framework for their lives. They persist in hoping that something they think they'll find in the place they're heading for will somehow provide them with a fulfilment they feel certain they deserve and yet have never come close to experiencing. — Iain M. Banks

It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy. — Paul Volcker

Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me. — Jennifer Beckstrand

Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries. — Steven Magee

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being. — Sigmund Freud

For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented. — Russell Sherman

You're just ... You're everything
His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic. — Jessica Park