Verwendeter Quotes & Sayings

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. — Alister E. McGrath

For I could not want her now, more than I could a lover.
But I could not want a lover, more than I want freedom. — Sarah Waters

She knew even before she opened her eyes that she was home - or not home, but in her woods at least. She knew they were her woods by the smell of pines and the quality of the air, a scrubbed, cool, clean sensation that she associated with the Merrimack River. She could hear the river, distantly, a gentle, soothing rush of sound that was really in no way like static. — Joe Hill

There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper — Becky Chambers

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances. — Thomas Malthus

I am not me, I am not a human being.
I am empty.
Infinite emptiness dwells in me.
I am the spirit.
Emptiness is me. — Debasish Mridha

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability. — Allan Savory

Hey man! Get away from me! — Mickey Mantle

I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older. — Jackie Evancho

The very worst that could happen would be for Jayda to fall in love with a godless man whilst she was in London. If it were an Englishman he would most likely be an infidel and apostate, a kafir. As a stream of light rayed its column from the dome and shifted all other perspectives into shadow, Jamil squeezed his eyes shut away from the beam and prayed again that his sister could be guided to Allah; but the thought most acute to him at that moment was that such a temptation would appeal to her. — Johnny Leavesley

For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness. — Khaled Hosseini

In Muspell, at the edge of the flame, where the mist burns into light, where the land ends, stood Surtr, who existed before the gods. He stands there now...It is said that at Ragnarok, which is the end of the world, and only then, Surtr will leave his station. He will go forth from Muspell with his flaming sword and burn the world with fire, and one by one the gods will fall before him. — Neil Gaiman

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. — Carl Sagan

I know what it's like to be high. — Jeffrey Eugenides