Wacholderheiden Quotes & Sayings

A prompt refusal is sometimes no slight refusal. — Publilius Syrus

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet. — Antonio Banderas

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate. — Frederick Lenz

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. — Carmen Laforet

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. — Winston S. Churchill

But in my wretched efforts to stay alive at almost any cost I could still hurt and be hurt in my turn, and as long as death's black barrel organ was playing it seemed I would have to dance to the cheerless, doom-filled tune that was turning inexorably on the drum, like some liveried monkey with a terrified rictus on its face and a tin cup in its hand. That didn't make me unusual; just German. — Philip Kerr

Your perception of life is determined by experiences you allow take its abode in your thought pattern — Anita Ibeakanma

How can you just be so wrong about something? — John Green

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched. — Bruce Schneier

In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized
by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another at a
period several millennia after the epoch of which we speak. They arrived here eight thousand
years ago. They brought a lot of plant seeds with them, which is why we have apples and
oranges, not to mention bananas - one look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer
space. They also brought animals - horses and dogs and goats and so on. They were the builders
of Atlantis. Then they blew themselves up through being too clever. We're descended from the
stragglers. — Margaret Atwood

The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse. — Sherrod Brown

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning. — Catherynne M Valente

It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world.
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. — Louise Gluck