Weltwunder 7 Quotes & Sayings

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. 'Ulla! Ulla!' We — Stephen Baxter

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement — Jean Nouvel

Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results — Emma Pooley

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable. — Selwyn Hughes

Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I? — Joan Didion

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. — Paul Auster

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. — Rosamund Pike

Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one. — Helen Boswell

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain. — Garth Stein

She who laughs last laughs the laughingest. — Louise Rennison

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks ... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each. — Allen Ginsberg

If you read British Foreign Office records from the 1940s, it's clear they recognised that their day in the sun was over and that Britain would have to be the "junior partner" of the United States, and sometimes treated in a humiliating way. A striking example of this was in 1962, the time of the Cuban missile crisis. The Kennedy planners were making some very dangerous choices and pursuing policies which they thought had a good chance of leading to nuclear war, and they knew that Britain would be wiped out. The US wouldn't, because Russia's missiles couldn't reach there, but Britain would be wiped out. — Noam Chomsky

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves. — Shakti Gawain