Walburga Habsburg Quotes & Sayings

And then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes. — Anne Stuart

Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible. — Mark Haddon

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. — Lawrence Welk

She was a Mistress who needed a Master. Who needed him. — Joey W. Hill

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important. — Yvon Chouinard

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective. — Laurie A. Helgoe

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected. — Plato

Most of the advice was along the lines of, "If you persevere in your efforts you will surely succeed," which is bullshit, if you ask me. People who turn to stuff like this have probably already persevered and gotten nowhere. — Ryu Murakami

I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well. — James Welling

War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did not calcualte in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet? — Asne Seierstad

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it. — James Nesbitt

If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving." — Bill Gates

His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation. — M.K. Sutherland