An Sich Quotes

#1. If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

Mark Twain

#3. Man usually believes, if only words he hears,
That also with them goes material for thinking.
[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,
Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. The secret is: a catapult is a joy in it self ... freude an sich ... it doesn't need a reason, it IS the reason.

Frances Winkler

#5. Das wird sich alles finden.
Everything will be okay.

Sara Zarr

#6. You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. An' C is for claymore . . . and crivens, I'll gi'e ye sich a guid kickin' if'n you stick that sword intae me one muir time," shouted the third, turning and hurling himself at one of his brothers.

Terry Pratchett

#9. It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death's inevitability leaps in front of you in the middle of the night when you get up to pee.

Stan Goff

#12. He loves deep ... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

Forrest Carter

#13. The embers of time spark and flash but they, like all else, smolder and extinguish.

Ronie Kendig

#14. Loving what you do gives you the ultimate joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Love where there is no reason to love

Sangharakshita

#16. I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Tyler Perry

#18. Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe