Verschlusskappen Quotes & Sayings

Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order of the Western nations as an equal, forever grouped with the countries of the East among which she felt herself superior, and respected fully by neither group? — Charles Emmerson

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. — Aristotle.

People... people who NEED people, are the yuckiest people in the world. — G.S. Johnston

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist. — Anthony Horowitz

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again. — Dan Barker

Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. — J.K. Rowling

It felt like something that was meant to be kept secret, a new seed that might grow to something extraordinary if it wasn't forced to bloom too soon. — Leigh Bardugo

The rear door was black, the driver's side door was red, and the hood was sunshine-yellow. If Henry Ford and Picasso had gone out on a bender, that car was what the hangover would have looked like. — Kathleen O'Reilly

Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic. — Adam Savage

It's becoming very much like 1979 again. — Richard Wright

Justice means equality for equals, and inequality for unequals. — C.S. Lewis