Versterkt Quotes

#1. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

May Swenson

#2. God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#3. History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha

#4. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

Kaley Cuoco

#5. If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.

Adam Shankman

#8. A virtuous failure is better than a successful devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss

A.S. Byatt

#10. You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Chris Gethard

#11. To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

Viktor E. Frankl

#12. It's good to see you relax." He leaned in closer. "Between you and me, you can be a little high strung sometimes." "Which is completely cool and super-desirable, thank you very much." "Abso-fucking-lutely." The laughter in his eyes was beatific.

Kylie Scott

#13. Walk the path your heart beats faster on.

Nikki Rowe

#14. Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.

Yukio Mishima

#15. It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.

J. Budziszewski