Theodor Storm Quotes

#1. The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

Doug Stanhope

#2. Let your virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if you must speak of it, then do not be ashamed to stammer about it. Then speak and stammer: "This is my good, I love this, thus I like it entirely, thus alone do I want the good. I

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

Caroline B. Cooney

#4. A hero is not a hero because of their courage, but because of the courage they give to others.

Paul Clayton Gibbs

#5. I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

Alice Dellal

#6. At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

Robin Hobb

#7. Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.

Theodor Storm

#8. The intuition of a deafened and isolated soldier often turns out to be nearer the truth than judgements delivered by staff officers as they study the map.

Vasily Grossman

#9. Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

Theodor Storm

#10. Not everything set on fire will rise.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. I'm definitely a romantic, no doubt about it.

Michael Masser

#12. Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

Eliza Dushku