Moritz Moszkowski Quotes

#1. Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Erich Fromm

#2. He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

#4. Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Rick Perlstein

#5. His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

Roberto Bolano

#6. It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

Carl Sagan

#7. I am embarrassed. We are all embarrassed. We Americans have guided our destinies so clumsily, with all the world watching, that we must now protect ourselves against our own government and our own industries.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. While nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

J. E. Buckrose

#9. I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

Sarah Shahi

#10. I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

Rachel Kushner

#11. I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

Leila Aboulela

#12. If it's true that the Spirit of God dwells in us and that our bodies are the Holy Spirit's temple, then shouldn't there be a huge difference between the person who has the Spirit of God living inside of him or her and the person who does not?

Francis Chan

#13. If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

R.A. Torrey

#14. Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

Sharon Salzberg