„To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.“

— J. M. Barrie

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„I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
„When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down.“
— Steve Jobs
„You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„It’s okay,” said Alec. “I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout’s fair play.” He frowned. “Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me.“
— Cassandra Clare
„If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.“
— Jonathan Edwards