„Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about,” said the voice of Maurice. “They’re so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„What about sunrise, what about rain?What about all the things that you said we were to gain?What about flowering fields, is there a time?What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?“
— Michael Jackson
„I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.Tell me," I said.You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.“
— Ravi Zacharias
„One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.“
— Harper Lee
„Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!“
— Rick Riordan
„The god of dirtcame up to me many times and saidso many wise and delectable things,I layon the grass listeningto his dog voice,frog voice; now,he said, and now,and never once mentioned foreverfrom, One or Two Things“
— Mary Oliver
„I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„I want people to unite behind the science… And that is what we have to realize, that that is what we have to do right now.. I’m not the one who’s saying these things. I’m not the one who we should be listening to. And I say that all the time. I say we need to listen to the scientists.“
— Greta Thunberg
„When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time."“
— Cesare Pavese