Zeitung In English Quotes & Sayings

Marriage is a series of promises. — J.D. Robb

Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe. — James Cook

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting. — Susanna Clarke

You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the Dragon. Now suppose I went about telling everybody that this was only a corruption of King George and the Dragoon. Scores of people would believe it, without any inquiry, from a vague feeling that it's probable because it's prosaic. It turns something romantic and legendary into something recent and ordinary. And that somehow makes it sound rational, though it is unsupported by reason. Of course some people would have the sense to remember having seen St. George in old Italian pictures and French romances, but a good many wouldn't think about it at all. They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That's exactly what has happened here. — G.K. Chesterton

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. — Jane Austen

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. — Peter MacNicol

Sorry, kitty, I think they're all out of balls of wool. — Mina Carter

The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers. — Barbara Fredrickson

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. — Brian Tracy