Unsichtbares Quotes

#1. The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#2. A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

John C. Calhoun

#3. Though your position in the hearts of others may change with circumstance, your position in God's heart never changes. You are His beloved!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#4. Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Horace

#5. If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

Robin McKinley

#6. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Jan Morris

#7. I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Amy Ruley

#8. He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Cato The Elder

#9. They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much.

Chaim Potok

#10. The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

William Taylor

#11. Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

E. M. Forster

#12. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuangzi

#13. I'm like a grenade made of ceramic -solid and dense and cold- but still fragile.

Jasmine Warga