Vetter Quotes

#1. Even now, I have to smile when I think of this. I tell you, of all the things about Werner Vetter that appealed to me, this most of all warmed my heart: He had no respect for the truth in Nazi Germany.

Edith Hahn Beer

#2. How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Joni Eareckson Tada

#3. We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.

Stephen King

#4. There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.

Rick Riordan

#5. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)

Victoria Moran

#6. The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Laurence Sterne

#7. You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!

Christopher Paolini

#8. When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Joy Harjo

#9. The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Jean Paul

#10. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Earl Nightingale

#11. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.

Ilchi Lee

#12. The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Simone Weil

#13. It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Eric Hoffer

#14. I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

Robert Pinsky