Vertragen In English Quotes & Sayings

She'd thrown something at the mirror, and then the mirror broke into a thousand pieces and she knew that wasn't all; she was breaking into a thousand pieces, too. — Robert Bloch

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice. — Emmeline Pankhurst

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. — Billy Corgan

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability. — Timothy Geithner

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — John O'Donohue

For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon. — Lewis Buzbee

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that. — Haile Gebrselassie

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up. — John Wells

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate. — E. Phillips Oppenheim

Two men, one fairly dragging the other along, suddenly entered the clearing and, their eyes trained behind them, ran headlong into the owl's creation and knocked it, every maple branch and every twig of dogwood, to the ground in a splintering crash. The owl fell backward, devastated. — Colin Meloy

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew. — Oliver North