Der Rosenkavalier Quotes

#1. He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

Erwin Rommel

#2. Oh well. I'm headed back to the Overworld.

Crafty Nichole

#3. You are more than the sum of your particles. And that is quite a sum.

Matt Haig

#4. I told her it (sex) was beautiful. I wanted to prove it to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing. She sighed in the dark.

Jack Kerouac

#5. A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Sonya Hartnett

#6. To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Ralph Venning

#7. As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike's chariot.

Rick Riordan

#8. Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.

Zadie Smith

#9. There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

Willie Soon

#10. We Catholics are very much given to the Instant Answer. Fiction doesn't have any. It leaves us, like Job, with a renewed sense of mystery. St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. That is what the fiction writer, on his lesser level, hopes to do.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

Osamu Dazai

#12. I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

Prince William

#13. Our problem is civil obedience

Matt Damon

#14. As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Seamus Heaney