Adalbert Stifter Quotes

#1. You're a goddam funny kid, Clivey," he said. "I got sixteen grandchildren, and there's only two of em that I think is gonna amount to duckshit, and you ain't one of em - although you're on the runner-up list - but you're the only one that can make me laugh until my balls ache.

Stephen King

#2. Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

Rajneesh

#3. Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

Patricia Briggs

#4. Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

George W. Bush

#5. What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

Richard Pryor

#6. WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! - (.Y.).

Andy Weir

#7. Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

CrimethInc.

#8. I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

Taya Kyle

#9. Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.

Adalbert Stifter

#10. Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

Adalbert Stifter

#11. Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

Adalbert Stifter

#12. Until you lose sight of the shore, you'll never discover new oceans!

Jennifer Handford

#13. Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.

Adalbert Stifter

#14. My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

Adalbert Stifter

#15. After you fell asleep, I moved the video camera closer to us. I wrapped my arms around you and listened to you breathe until I fell asleep.
Sometimes when I have trouble sleeping, I'll play that video..

Colleen Hoover

#16. In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Adalbert Stifter