Verein Quotes & Sayings

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight. — Saul Bellow

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke

I've never understood why people pick Noah's ark for a nursery theme anyway." Andrea said breezily ...
Really", I snorted. "I mean, who wants reminders of a natural disaster, literally of biblical portions, on their baby's walls? What are you supposed to say, 'Oh, drowning sinners, isn't that precious? — Molly Harper

Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them. — Ann Reed

But young parents, educated middle-class ones anyway, are very jumpy these days, they get so much information from the media about all the things that could be wrong with their child - autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, allergies, obesity and so on - they're in a constant state of panic, watching their offspring like hawks for warning signs. — David Lodge

People in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves. — May Sinclair

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results. — Nick Saban

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to. — Charlie Brooker

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. — Ralph W. Sockman