[last lines] Traudl Junge: All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I as...
The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.' That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to h...
Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you co...
Forse – considerò – non esistono nemmeno amici buoni o cattivi, forse ci sono solo amici, persone che prendono le tue parti quando stai male e che ti aiutano a non sentirti solo. Forse per un amico vale sempre la pena avere paura e sperare e viv...
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.
A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Respect flies away for the one who pursues it and hunts the person who is fleeing from it.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs
A pig that is used to wallowing in the mud looks for a clean person to rub against.
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.
Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent a personality.
Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.
She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.
What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.
The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.