Willenskraft Quotes & Sayings

My judgment is that the rich undergo cruel trials and bitter tragedies of which the poor know nothing. In the first place I find that the rich suffer perpetually from money troubles. The poor sit snugly at home while sterling exchange falls ten points in a day. Do they care? Not a bit. An adverse balance of trade washes over the nation like a flood. Who have to mop it up? The rich. Call money rushes up to a hundred per cent, and the poor can still sit and laugh at a ten cent moving picture show and forget it. But the rich are troubled by money all the time. — Stephen Leacock

And what do you believe?"
A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning. — Robin Hobb

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. — Michel De Montaigne

You can't promise love, Ladle. Love just happens, — Cameron Jace

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ... — Ama Ata Aidoo

A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there. — Ray Jay Perreault

Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable. — Myra McEntire

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot. — Robert Frost

[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary
for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became. — Jacob G. Hornberger

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten. — Brian Setzer