Geben Quotes

#1. The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. When the time comes, everybody's got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn't have a place to call my own. It's like musical chairs.

Haruki Murakami

#3. For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

Elif Batuman

#6. Whatever you want the most, it's going to be the worst for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Douglas Feith

#8. An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?'
'Not in the least,' I answered in astonishment.
'Ah, that's lucky,' he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben,

Naomi Novik

#12. There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.

Chloe Thurlow