Gebildeter Mensch Quotes

#1. This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca

#2. As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. To arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat.

Victor Hugo

#4. Whatever you're going through, God is in it. He has allowed the circumstances that have brought you to this "waiting place," and He's increasing your faith by threatening to destroy it.

Cherie Hill

#5. The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection
the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.

John Berger

#6. With that they, and many others, left the hall and joined the moving crowd in the street. The night was delightfully cool. Stars shone white in a velvet sky. The dry wind from mountain and desert blew in their faces. Pan

Zane Grey

#7. (On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Louis Zamperini