Toepfer Grand Quotes

#1. There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#2. I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

#4. A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Simone Weil

#5. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!

John G. Miller

#6. I look at the check once more and then fold and tuck it into my bra. It's not every day a girl gets to be up close and personal with this much money.

Laura Castoro

#7. Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Robert Schumann

#8. Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

Steve Breen

#9. To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Edmund Burke

#10. He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience.

Mary Shelley

#11. I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.

Lois Greiman

#12. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?

Jorge Amado