Vereinigung Quotes & Sayings

Until recently, I never realized to what degree the middle class is a moral, rather than an economic, entity, based less on status than on possessive, life-sustaining love. The moral middle class plays life by percentages, because that is the safest bet, and percentage play - in life as in tennis - is by definition conservative. — Andrew Todhunter

There is no more final end than death. — John Thaw

All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result of work accomplished by the human spirit, no matter what the material facts that may have stimulated it (a walk, a night of love, a social drama), of a sort of discovery in the world of the spirit, of the emotions, made by the human intelligence, so that the value of a book is never in the material presented by the writer, but in the nature of the operation he performs upon it. — Marcel Proust

Our son shall win.
QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow. — William Shakespeare

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia. — Jeff Goodell

The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst. — H. E. Fosdick

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.' — Evangeline Lilly

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. — Charles Eames

Sometimes being a contrary bastard was a real pain. — Lori Foster

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips ... no Congress can make just one. — Jon Stewart

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price. — Alyssa Day

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. — Greg Boyle

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration. — Maya Angelou

Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing. — Jeri Smith-Ready