Versteckt Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be a star, merely dying. — Leonard Cohen

I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice. — Louise Erdrich

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena. — Lewis H. Lapham

To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power. — Victor Hugo

Jaz is their drummer. He's pretty damn good too. Hell, he's pretty damn good at everything he's ever tried. Creative little shit. — Lissa Matthews

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

I did Google him, you know."
"Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search? — Alyson Noel

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces. — Radhanath Swami

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy. — Ndamukong Suh

Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast. — Jonathan Franzen

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke ... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. — Iain Banks