Wittenauers Quotes & Sayings

Tragically misinformed, some Christian believers at first looked upon hippies as promising prospects through whom the Church could present the claims of Jesus Christ. Clergymen mistakenly proclaimed that hippies were searching for truth and meaning and needed only to be guided. Wasn't their talk about love? Weren't they seeking an opportunity to share the love of God with others?

On the contrary, the hippies claimed to have found meaning for existence through conscious expanding drugs. And although they sang of love in chants and groans, they knew nothing of love's commitment and concern and duty towards one's neighbor. They ignored the responsibility of love and dwelt upon their quest for uninhibited physical gratification. — Bob Larson

I don't want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love. — Olivia

The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly - yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person. — Hermann Hesse

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler. — Meg Cabot

From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth. — Steven Kotler

That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time. — Chelsea Handler

There are those laughing their way to hell; and those, crying themselves to heaven. — Anthony Liccione

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage. — E. Howard Hunt

To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. " - I sometimes doubt if he's human," said Will, speaking his thought aloud. "It's probably all done with wheels. — Dorothy Dunnett

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young - and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death - as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance. — Yukio Mishima

The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to
compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of
free will. — Dean L. Larsen

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right. — Nigel Hamilton

Beauty is a sign of intelligence. — Andy Warhol

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I see myself as an arbiter of taste. — Vera Wang