Bornes Siemens Quotes

#1. War is a disease without a cure, and we're all infected.

R.V. Doon

#2. Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

Leo Rosten

#3. On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it
that disgusts me

C.S. Lewis

#4. D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D'Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#7. The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.

Hisaya Nakajo

#8. My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

John Lurie