Hammerli 208 Quotes

#1. It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Hermann Hesse

#2. I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

Cassandra Clare

#3. After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.

Marci Shimoff

#4. For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Paz Vega

#5. There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

#6. It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Dorothy Parker

#7. Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

Anna Gavalda

#8. When the Catholic Church insists that it is more sinful to use condoms in the midst of a sexually transmitted epidemic that it is for the same Church to withhold approbation of the use of condoms, it is less suprising that the sexual abuse of minors was handled unethically.

Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea

#9. Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Miles Davis

#10. Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

Vladimir Lenin