Verfolgte Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it. — Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner. — Barry Webster

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. — George Orwell

I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is ... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes. — W. J. T. Mitchell

The root cause of loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the awareness of our connection to our true divine selves. - Swati Nigam — Bryant McGill

The culturalists tried to make the idea more appealing by pointing out that even in modern languages we use idioms that are rather imprecise about color. Don't we speak of "white wine," for instance, even if we can see perfectly well that it is really yellowish green? Don't we have "black cherries" that are dark red and "white cherries" that are yellowish red? Aren't red squirrels really brown? Don't the Italians call the yolk of an egg "red" (il rosso)? Don't we call the color of orange juice "orange," although it is in fact perfectly yellow? (Check it next time.) — Guy Deutscher

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. — Sutton Foster

You prance in my mind, Mary. — Abigail Roux

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts. — Taylor Swift

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. — Robert E. Howard

The man starts wars all the fucking time, only this time, when I needed a little conflict? Now he's the fucking peacemaker. — James S.A. Corey

Prayer is meant to be preventative more than remedial. We usually treat prayer as remedial, meaning we pray when we have a need or are in trouble. But in Luke 18:1 Jesus says that at all times we "ought to pray ... and not lose heart." In other words, prayer isn't the last thought; it's the first thought. It is preventative, not remedial. Also instead of praying when we are tempted, Jesus says we should pray that we "may not enter into temptation" (Matthew 26:41). When we are not under pressure and stress, we should be praying so that we might be shored up and defended against the pressures that will come. — David Jeremiah

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet. — Yehuda Berg