Verzicht Duden Quotes & Sayings

The proper way for the woman to test the man's love is thus to "betray" him at a crucial moment in his career — Slavoj Zizek

Writers acquire the hedge habit to conform to the bureaucratic imperative that's abbreviated as CYA, which I'll spell out as Cover Your Anatomy. They hope it will get them off the hook, or at least allow them to plead guilty to a lesser charge, should a critic ever try to prove them wrong. It's the same reason that lawsuit-wary journalists drizzle the words allegedly and reportedly throughout their copy, as in The alleged victim was found lying in a pool of blood with a knife in his back. — Steven Pinker

DELPHI: You think you're stronger than me?

HARRY: No, I'm not.

They fire bolts mercilessly at each other as ALBUS rolls quickly away and slams a spell into one door and then another.

But we are.

ALBUS opens both doors with his wand.

ALBUS: Alohomora! Alohomora!

HARRY: I've never fought alone, you see. And I never will. — J.K. Rowling

Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it. — Robin Sharma

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable. — Toni Morrison

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. — Robert Sheckley

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. — Shelby Steele

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior — Charlotte Bronte

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. — B.R. Ambedkar

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself! — Joe McNally

Every atom of Markus melted into intense pleasure. And at the center of this ecstatic realm, his heart leapt with joy throughout his entire body. — David Foenkinos