Gewesen Quotes

#1. To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

Leopold Von Ranke

#2. Thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.

Richard Louv

#3. [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

Dianne Feinstein

#4. If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

Tie Domi

#6. It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.

Syed Arshad

#7. The antidote to entitlement is forgiveness in two directions.

Henry Cloud

#8. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world ... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Abraham Lincoln