Helvetia Quotes

#1. I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

Carl Jung

#2. Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Michel Faber

#4. Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it.

Jim Fixx

#5. But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

Ann Patchett

#6. To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

Jan Morris

#7. If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

Donna Rice Hughes

#8. I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

Joyce Maynard

#9. I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

Sterling Marlin

#10. People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

Aidan Gillen

#11. The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

K. Eric Drexler