Wildungen Quotes & Sayings

I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor. — Cate Marvin

I will storm the gods, and shake the universe. — Seneca.

It was on the tip of my tongue to say something snide, something that would hurt him, but somehow I couldn't. It would be like kicking Bambi in the teeth. — Marshall Thornton

Girl? He pressed.
The name is Riley, she shot back. Learn it. Use it! — Jana Oliver

A leader's words matter, but actions ultimately do more to reinforce or undermine the implementation of a team of teams. Instead of exploiting technology to monitor employee performance at levels that would have warmed Frederick Taylor's heart, the leader must allow team members to monitor him. More than directing, leaders must exhibit personal transparency. This is the new ideal. — Stanley McChrystal

The second glimpse came through Squirrel Nutkin; through it only, though I loved all the Beatrix Potter books. But the rest of them were merely entertaining; it administered the shock, it was a trouble. It troubled me with what I can only describe as the Idea of Autumn. It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamored of a season, but that is something like what happened; and, as before, the experience was one of intense desire. And one went back to the book, not to gratify the desire (that was impossible - how can one possess Autumn?) but to reawake it. And in this experience also there was the same surprise and the same sense of incalculable importance. It was something quite different from ordinary life and even from ordinary pleasure; something, as they would now say, "in another dimension." The — C.S. Lewis

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories. — Patricia Polacco

Nobody has any security in loving me. — Brigitte Bardot

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. — Charles Schumer

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate. — Mary Catherwood

Even pleasure cloys without variety. — Ovid

I realized I'm not supposed to be pursuing impact, I'm supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have. — Phil Vischer

Any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious. — Julian Huxley

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance. — Ken Follett