Werthers Quotes & Sayings

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. — William Hague

You have a choice everyday ... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy. — Norman Vincent Peale

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled. — Stephen R. Lawhead

This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance. — David Foster Wallace

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep. — Kate Clinton

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. — Rob Portman

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon

My grandma showed me that there is always something to learn, that everybody got something to tell you — Kathleen Grissom

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time! — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of Us:
Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us. — Brian Andreas

And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it. — Karen Marie Moning

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity. — Fidel Castro

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. — Scott Belsky

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism ... Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers. — Emile Zola