Wiesmann Mf5 Quotes & Sayings

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I could respect and which attracted me. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating. — Darlene Love

My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.' — Rajneesh

I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me. — Annabella Sciorra

Kestrel had bought a life, and loved it, and sold it. — Marie Rutkoski

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. — Salman Rushdie

She sounds like a screeching ex-wife. — Rush Limbaugh

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!' — Manny Montana

From all those miles and leagues of flowers there rose a smell which Lucy found it very hard to describe; sweet - yes, but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh, wild, lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain and make you feel that you could go up mountains at a run or wrestle with an elephant. — C.S. Lewis

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy. — Robert Pattinson

American children hear no stories about ghosts. They spend a dime at the drugstore to buy a Superman comic book...Superman represents actual capabilities or future potential, while ghosts symbolize belief in and reverence for the accumulated past...How could ghosts gain a foothold in American cities? People move about like the tide, unable to form permanent ties with places, still less with other people...In a world without ghosts, life is free and easy. American eyes can gaze straight ahead. But still I think they lack something and I do not envy their life. — Fei Xiaotong

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, — P.G. Wodehouse