Venjakob Esstische Quotes & Sayings

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. — Dean Acheson

There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you. — David Baldacci

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold. — Walter Scott

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings. — Hosea Ballou

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it. — Marcus Giles

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Google might be doping the horses. — Al Franken

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar. — Rosamond Marshall

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. — Arthur Schnitzler

At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one lives more intensely. — James A. Michener

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can. — Charles Kelley