Verletztes Quotes & Sayings

The idea of it's great," I explain. "But then there's the actual thing of it. — Kristopher Jansma

She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into the darker territories of the soul always return unscathed. — J.M. Coetzee

As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be. — Susan Rohrer

Couples who play together, stay together. — Kris Garden

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music. — Jennifer Warnes

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for you to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boring way there was. They knew nothing of our pleasures nor how much fun it was to be damned to ourselves and never would know nor could know. Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean all happiness or can mean the end of the world. That is the sort of happiness you should not tinker with but nearly everyone you knew tried to adjust. — Ernest Hemingway,

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. — Henri Lefebvre

See what comes of chasing dragons. — George R R Martin

Drama is promised to everyone no matter how humble you are. — Dave Hockaday

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about. — Alice Rivlin

Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful. — C.S. Lewis

Beautifully wrapped. She reached for her tape, pulled the end - and got the sliver left on the roll. — Nora Roberts