We appreciate most that which we have lived without.
Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.
You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.
It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.
Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
Every morning, whether I've slept or not, whether I've made it through the day without crying or given in and sobbed in the shower, where no one can hear me― the sun comes up, and I make my choice.
You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.
As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.
The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature.
A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...
Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of weapons.
hornier than a bunny on ecstasy
I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were ...
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable or...
Nicht die Stammtischrhetorik ist es, die die Idee des Hohen Hauses blamiert, es ist vielmehr die Nichtanerkennung der Verluste, die Verachtung der Empathischen und Engagierten, die aus einem solchen Redner den legitimen Repräsentanten eines blasiert...
Seiner Funktion nach darf der Abgeordnete kein Zyniker sein, schließt doch Zynismus die Zustimmung zur Zerstörung ein und enthält so eine Absage an den Humanismus, dem sich das Parlament verdankt und den es immer wieder auf den neuesten Stand brin...
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
