Vergoldet 20 Quotes & Sayings

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Troubles never come singly. — Mary Louisa Molesworth

You just kissed me! Why isn't your face melting off? — S.L.J. Shortt

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. — Leo Tolstoy

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. — Chungliang Al Huang

Mental scrapbooks form our tastes, and our tastes influence our work. — Austin Kleon

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. — Abraham Cahan

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. — Max Von Sydow

The Romans formed a line of mantlets and constructed a siege terrace. When they began to erect a siege tower at some distance, the defenders on the wall at first made abusive remarks and ridiculed the idea of setting up such a huge apparatus so far away. Did those pygmy Romans, they asked, with their feeble hands and muscles, imagine that they could mount such a heavy tower on top of a wall? (All the Gauls are inclined to be contemptuous of our short stature, contrasting it with their own great height.) 31. But when they saw the tower in motion and approaching the fortress walls, the strange, unfamiliar spectacle frightened them into sending envoys to ask Caesar for peace. The envoys said they were forced to the conclusion that the Romans had divine aid in their warlike operations, since they could move up apparatus of such height at such a speed. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment. — Saaif Alam

The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. — Jeff Olson