Erhebe Dich Quotes

#1. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.

Harry Mulisch

#2. Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

Karen Mills

#3. We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller

#5. Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

Christopher Paolini

#6. Aah, God help us, how sleazy is it, and how has it come to this? a rented palace, a denial of the passage of time, a mogul on the black-diamond slopes of the IT sector thinks he's a rock star.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

Ariel Levy

#8. As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

Criss Jami

#9. You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Andy Weir