Rudolf Havenstein Quotes

#1. The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958)

Bernard Malamud

#2. I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard as I laughed with you but now not even the laughing feels good.

Nina LaCour

#3. THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she'd put to use at the moment.

Courtney Milan

#4. A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Amos Oz

#5. Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

John Green

#6. Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Kevin Hart

#7. Albums take a lot out of you.

Travie McCoy

#8. With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is to concentrate on cause and prevent the misery.

Richard Diaz

#9. The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Colin Wilson

#10. She was reminded of her mother's prophecy one day before her wedding that - he will go completely mad one day. But he seems so happy she told her mother. Its not only the sad who go mad, my child, its also the happy, her mother said.
- Serious Men

Manu Joseph

#11. Most motivational books are not authored by experts

Grant Lee

#12. The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Jean De La Bruyere