Verschlussbeutel Quotes & Sayings

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. — Franz Grillparzer

Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element. — Kate Atkinson

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. — Ben Nicholson

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment. — John Elkington

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. — Hokusai

Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff. — Stephenie Meyer

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well. — Thomas Huxley

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue. — Ali Babacan

[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is called prejudice; and the greatest prejudice of all is to represent nature as not subject to the rules that the understanding places at its basis by means of its own essential law, i.e. is superstition. Deliverance from superstition is called enlightenment; because although this name belongs to deliverance from prejudices in general, yet superstition especially (in sensu eminenti) deserves to be called a prejudice. For the blindness in which superstition places us, which it even imposes on us as an obligation, makes the need of being guided by others, and the consequent passive state of our reason, peculiarly noticeable. — Immanuel Kant

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. — Junot Diaz

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond. — Swami Vivekananda

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. — William Safire

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong. — Dennis Miller

And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and may never hear from, who perhaps do not even exist except in your hopes? Why spend ten years in an apprenticeship to fiction only to discover that this society so little values what you do that it won't pay you a living wage for it? — Wallace Stegner