Westerse Kunst Quotes & Sayings

I climbed like a billion stairs ... its not like I can take them two at a time. — Danny DeVito

Believe is the first step of faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

His tragic flaw is that he is a walking tragedy, and his smile makes me feel alive. — Hannah Moskowitz

Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a pen in her bag. Little lies, mostly. Insignificant. Of course there were big ones there, too, like telling herself that she was more than just a junkie who got lucky enough to possess a talent not everyone had. That she was alone by choice and that she was not terrified of other people because they couldn't be trusted, because they carried filth in their minds and pain in their hands and they would smear both all over her given half the chance. — Stacia Kane

Threatening others with physical harm allows the possibility of cutting through all this. It makes possible relations of a far more simple and schematic kind ("cross this line and I will shoot you," "one more word out of any of you and you're going to jail"). This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. — David Graeber

So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it. — Nick Lowe

Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for. — Mark Manson

Reacher said, "Our nearest tanks are a thousand miles from Yemen or Afghanistan, and they take weeks and weeks and thousands of people to move. It would be easier to bring Yemen or Afghanistan to them. Also faster and less obtrusive. — Lee Child

This almost never happens, outside of the realm of scientific terminology (which is obviously a domain populated by sadists with no regard for language). — Ammon Shea

Knowledge is king, a dream is his queen, and self destruction is his mistress. — Noel DeJesus

In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. — Masha Tupitsyn

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think ... In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that. — Napoleon Bonaparte

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do. — Shigeru Miyamoto

What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist? — Anne Bronte

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. — Francis Quarles