Wittler Michele Quotes & Sayings

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. — John Hughes

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. — Plato

I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello. — Julia Kent

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something. — Marie Calloway

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid. — Henry David Thoreau

No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice. — Soren Kierkegaard

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space ... — Mario Vargas-Llosa

He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all. — George R R Martin

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's. — Andre Gide

Someone else's personal fantasy may well be your personal nightmare. — Cole McCade

Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast. — Hermann Hesse

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way. — Gene Luen Yang

I always root for the defense. — Wellington Mara