Zweimal Mathea Quotes & Sayings

I suppose we were worn down and shivering. Three a.m. is a mean spirited hour. I suppose we were drenched, with the cold hose water trickling in at our collars and settling down at the tail of our shirts. Without doubt the heavy brass couplings felt moulded from metal-ice. Probably the open roar of the pumps drowned the petulant buzz of the raiders above, and certainly the ubiquitous fire-glow made an orange stage-set of the streets. Black water would have puddled the city alleys and I suppose our hands and faces were black as the water. Black with hacking about among the burnt-up rafters. These things were an every-night nonentity. They happened and they were not forgotten because they were not even remembered. — William Sansom

They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they graduate us out the door. It's their revenge, see? Here we are reading books in literature class about some banana who's only got one oar in the water to start with, and then he pops it out worrying about principles. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena. — Nima Arkani-Hamed

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, 'Oh shit, she's awake! — Nancy Naigle

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile. — Diana Nyad

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can. — Anne Sweeney

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything. — Joshua Bell

You are a child of God and, therefore, deserve to allow the light of God's love to come streaming into your heart. — Catherine Carrigan

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. — Friedrich Schleiermacher