Wirtshaus German Quotes & Sayings

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. — Propertius

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines. — Neal Knox

In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women. — Anita Rau Badami

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. — Rick Yune

Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:
a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.
b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.
c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed. — Milton A. Rothhman

I resigned myself to the fact that the only way I would get Mishrani out of the movement was to deprogram her. It was a terrifying prospect. There were very real risks that it could go wrong and I could wind up in jail, or worse, Mishrani could end up hating me for the rest of her life.

There was no way around it, though. It was a thing that needed doing, and I was just the guy to do it. — Bhakta Jim

The gifts of God are rarely what we expect. — Charlie Lovett

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. — Edouard Manet

In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas... — Joseph A. Tainter

Prayer helps us overcome the fear that is related to building our life just on the interpersonal - "What does he or she think of me? Who is my friend? Who is my enemy? Whom do I like? Dislike? Who rewards me? Punishes me? Says good things about me? Or doesn't?" We are concerned about personal identity and distinctions from others. As long as our sense of self depends on what other people think about us and say about us, and on how they respond to us, we become prisoners of the interpersonal, of that interlocking of people, of clinging to each other in a search for identity; we are no longer free but fearful. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The body is a bundle of careful compromises. — Randolph M. Nesse

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't! — Alexander Herrmann