Zirksee Quotes & Sayings

The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that.
-Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic) — Kelley Armstrong

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us. — Phil Donahue

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest - to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing. — Denis Hayes

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward. — Bill McKibben

Am I in a relationship? Yeah. I'm already in a relationship with everybody that likes me. — G-Dragon

The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care. — Dustin Hoffman

It is with a good book as it is with good company. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. — Samuel Johnson

She had a cloth in her hands. She said, Frankie hungry? — Jane Smiley

We wizards are terrific at brooding. — Jim Butcher

You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been. — Frederick Lenz

... it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms — Alasdair MacIntyre

It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong. — Jeanette Winterson