Lehren Quotes

#1. The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.

Augusto Pinochet

#2. Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

Emily Dickinson

#3. As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson

#4. I'm bankrupt without love.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

Zygmunt Bauman

#6. Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Haruki Murakami

#7. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Bob Dylan

#8. I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story.

Shane Black

#9. Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

John Darnielle

#10. THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.

John Sandford

#11. Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Anthony Burgess

#12. Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

Imelda Staunton

#13. The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag

#14. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke