Quotes

„A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„That is all there is to the story. Catherine died and you will die and I will die and that is all I can promise you.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. “Filthy inside and out.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity — because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.“
— Barack Obama
„The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.“
— Ronald Reagan
„I’m tired of waiting to die. Let’s go out.“
— Charles Bukowski
„There’s been a trend around the country of trying to get college to disinvite speakers with a different point of view or disrupt a politician’s rally. Don’t do that, no matter how ridiculous or offensive you might find the things that come out of their mouths… If the other side has a point, learn from them! If they’re wrong, rebut them, teach them, beat them on the battlefield of ideas!“
— Barack Obama
„I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her.”Will looked interested. “I think she should try that out now and see what happens.“
— Cassandra Clare
„God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and any other men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers and where every man will respect the dignity and the worth of human personality. This is what we work for and this is the good society which we must seek in America. But it will not come until enough people are willing to stand up and mobilize forces of good will, to seek to implement that which is just and right.“
— Jr.
„I wish I was close to Jace Herondale,” Julie sighted. “He is so gorgeous.””He is foxier than a fox fur in a fox hole on fox hunting day,” Beatriz agreed dreamily.“
— Cassandra Clare
„My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn’t really excited me.But love is a terrible thing: I’ve seen my girlfriends suffer and I don’t want the same thing to happen to me. … Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Call the world if you please “The vale of soul-making.”“
— John Keats
„He wasn’t evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.“
— Jim Butcher
„John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, ‘You know, this is really a beat generation’ and he leapt up and said ‘That’s it, that’s right!“
— Jack Kerouac
„That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?“
— Harper Lee
„They made the predictable fuss about taking a cat into a room and an autobellhop is not responsive to bribes—hardly an improvement. But the assistant manager had more flexibility in his synapses; He listened to reason as long as it was crisp and rustled.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.“
— Peter F. Drucker
„Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.“
— Stephen King
„I conceived this story [ MW ] with the intention of presenting readers a picaresque drama that distort the traditional atmosphere of my stories leave them stunned.I wish that all the ills of society – conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape – and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity.Now I feel a great regret. My style inadequate forces me to complete the work without being able …“
— Osamu Tezuka
„She is not concerned about what I think about it or what Mrs. King thinks about it. She wants it. She’s a child and that’s very natural and normal for a child. She is inevitably self-centered because she’s a child. But when one matures, when one rises above the early years of childhood, he begins to love people for their own sake. He turns himself to higher loyalties. He gives himself to something outside of himself. He gives himself to causes that he lives for and sometimes will even die for. He comes to the point that now he can rise above his individualistic concerns“
— Jr.
„You don’t know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!“
— Tennessee Williams
„The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got responsibilities.”“
— Richard Bach
„Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.“
— Kurt Cobain
„I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.“
— Napoleon Hill
„We cannot know the mystery of the future.“
— Jimmy Carter
„Receive without conceit, release without struggle.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I would recommend to her and Mr. D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.“
— Jane Austen
„Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight“
— P. C. Cast