Wichtige Stromgren Quotes & Sayings

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare. — Denis Diderot

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge. — Alan K. Simpson

Love defeats shame, every time. — Stephen Lovegrove

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. — Wendell Berry

He was forty, which is the most frightening age in life. You don't feel sorry for the old, because they are old already; you don't feel sorry for the dead, because they are dead already. But you do feel sorry for those approaching old age, those approaching death. Forty! At fairgrounds you see roller coasters dashing up a steep slope followed by a steep drop and then another ascent. At the top of the slope, or rather just before the top, the vehicle has used up all the energy it acquired in the descent and it slows down and hesitates as if the top were unattainable, as it it were terrified of the approaching plunge. The man approaching forty is in a similar state of hesitation and uncertainty; his pace slackens, he is paralyzed by the approaching summit and the descent he cannot see but knows lies just ahead. — Pitigrilli

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. — Swami Vivekananda

The treacheries of ambition never cease. — Ruben Dario

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm. — Paulo Coelho

But I know we need to keep warm here on earth
And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories. — Naomi Shihab Nye

prone to fits of 'immoderate arrogance'. — Anonymous