Vereinigtes Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer. — Nick Cannon

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling. — John Derbyshire

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years. — Jamie Lawson

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller

In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together. — Dalai Lama

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I could lie there as long as I wanted, and let all the pictures of things a man might want run through my head, coffee, a girl, money, a drink, white sand and blue water, and let them all slide off, one after another, like a deck of cards slewing slowly off your hand. Maybe the things you want are like cards. You don't want them for themselves, really, though you think you do. You don't want a card because you want the card, but because in a perfectly arbitrary system of rules and values and in a special combination of which you already hold a part the card has meaning. But suppose you aren't sitting in a game. Then, even if you do know the rules, a card doesn't mean a thing. They all look alike. — Robert Penn Warren

All you will get from me is death. — Patrick DeWitt

Time flew over me, its black wings spread. — Minae Mizumura

Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind. — Ervin Seale

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!" — Li Bingbing

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point. — Harry Connick Jr.

The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes. — Ann Voskamp

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings. — B.J. Novak