Volkschule Quotes & Sayings

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days. — Denis Norden

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means. — Rem Koolhaas

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment. — Brian O'Driscoll

never the way it seems - all good, all bad. — Donna Tartt

Well, not to sound puffed up in my own conceit... I think we make a mighty fine couple," she teasingly echoed.
He lifted his head and stood straight, chest pushed out, making himself appear larger. "You don't think that I'm a mite on the tall side?"
She eyed him, her eyes sparkling. "A mite? — Debra Holland

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. — Elbert Hubbard

Everything, including our pain, is His. I am thankful He will meet me in it. — Mary Beth Chapman

Over the past sixty years a rather impressive assembly of respectable taxonomists and evolutionary biologists have tried to unseat the biological species concept for a wide variety of reasons. Most of them failed, probably because Ernst Mayr is alive, adroit, and articulate at ninety-six years young as I write these words, and most critics are no match for him. — Stephen J. O'Brien

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule — Lynn Austin

In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts. — Rudy Giuliani

Women, I love. It's amazing to me, because I am a swimsuit model; I'm half-naked. I just love the fact that women love me, and it makes me love them so much back. — Chrissy Teigen

It's only too late if you don't start now. — Barbara Sher

Opportunists seek for a chance.
Entrepreneurs make new chances. — Toba Beta

A cup in her hand that was either strong tea or weak coffee. She nodded toward his desktop monitor. On it, three — James S.A. Corey

He proceeded to give us directions in a lilting accent, which I found enormously entertaining. I loved hearing Welsh people talk, even if half of what they said was incomprehensible to me. — Ransom Riggs

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them. — Thich Nhat Hanh