Westarp Quotes & Sayings

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. — Jean De La Fontaine

He is embraced by nature, which is waiting, ultimately, to receive him, to re-organize his atoms into another shape. — M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun. — Heather Matarazzo

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. — Trevor Ravenscroft

War sounds romantic, heroic even, until everyone you know starts dying. — Amy A. Bartol

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc. — Alan Dershowitz

Time is thought. — Lailah Gifty Akita

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They had a nice,if not private, reunion before Rupert joined them. He didn't exactly ruin it, but if he insisted on enacting their pretense tonight, even for her mother,it surely would. Unfortunately, he entered the room wearing a horribly bright lime-green dinner jacket that had his mother immediately scowling at him. So even after that kiss upstairs, he'd decided on an evening of humorously baiting his mother again. Bad timing, with her own mother there, or maybe not.At least it kept Rebecca's own mood light for the moment, since she knew why he did it.
Nor did Julie hold her tongue, remarking in disgust, "I see your taste is still beyond flamboyant. You're a bloody peacock, Rue."
He actually looked behind him as he replied, "I thought I had my feathers tucked away nicely. — Johanna Lindsey

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there. — Ron Suskind

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60. — Joan Rivers

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. — Paula Deen

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it. — Michael Crichton

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. — Edward Kennedy