Herrnhut Stars Quotes

#1. If it lay in my power to make myself feared, I had rather make myself beloved.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. he was obliged to confess that the true essence of a writer's work is usually unknown to him. He recalled the case of Swift, who, when he wrote Gulliver's Travels, tried to bring an indictment against all humanity but actually left a book for children.

Anonymous

#3. Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Alice Sebold

#4. First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

#5. It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.

Leon Askin

#7. At a social event she and I would normally have attended together, an acquaintance came up and said to me, simply, "There's someone missing." That felt correct, in both senses.

Julian Barnes

#8. No country. is as harsh as the world.

Fernando Meirelles

#9. I had equal opportunity to touch God sitting in my room, singing Him songs, as I did on a stage in front of twenty thousand people.

Anna Blanc

#10. I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William H. Gray

#11. Sometimes, she knew, people just needed a little time to be able to picture themselves in a new place, to see possibility in a blank space.

Jennifer Close

#12. I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.

Freddy Adu

#13. To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Rene Dubos