Wittgensteins Tractatus Quotes & Sayings

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world
the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion? — Honore De Balzac

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4). — Arthur W. Pink

Grief, like death, is banal and unique. So, a banal comparison. When you change your make of car, you suddenly notice how many other cars of the same sort there are on the road. They register in a way they never did before. When you are widowed, you suddenly notice all the widows and widowers coming towards you. Before, they had been more or less invisible, and they continue to remain so to the other drivers, to the unwidowed. — Julian Barnes

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans. — Tom Rooney

It was the night before the end of the world. — Jeff Grubb

But I thought you said we didn't have to worry," Perrin said, and Tam shook his head.
"I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not. — Robert Jordan

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. — Lech Walesa

Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap. The past has a face which is superstition, and a mask, which is hypocrisy. We must expose the face and tear off the mask. — Victor Hugo

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey

And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet. — David Malouf

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas. — Neil Gaiman

The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans ... as they compete for the best and brightest workforce. — Jerry Jasinowski

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters. — Raza Jaffrey

It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not — Jinggoy Estrada

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw