Eintopfsonntag Quotes

#1. It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

John Keats

#2. I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.

Karen Cushman

#3. We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

John Trudell

#4. Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

J.G. Ballard

#5. The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.

Richard Russo

#6. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#7. Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
[Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,
Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#8. Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?) must from situation be at this time the intimatre friend and confidante of her sister.

Jane Austen

#9. Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

Eknath Easwaran

#10. Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys with insecurities who need big theories.

Toni Bentley

#11. Mothers are the fountain of creation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Do I look like someone who would make a duck face or do a fish gape?

Melissa McClone

#13. Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

Shon Mehta