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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7cddd09 | If hell's in store for us someday, one of its most refined forms of torture will be to lock a person naked in a room filled with framed photos of his era. | Günter Grass | ||
| 1a24bac | What more can I say: born beneath light bulbs, interrupted my growth at the age of three, was given a drum, sangshattered glass, smelled vanilla, coughed in churches, stuffed Luzie with food, watched ants as they crawled, decided to grow, buried the drum, moved to the West, lost what was East, learned to carve stone and posed as a model, went back to my drum and inspected concrete, made money and cared for the finger, gave the finger away a.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 4853a84 | When pestered with questions, memory is like an onion that wishes to be peeled so we can read what is laid bare letter by letter. | onions | Günter Grass | |
| 3fa9011 | Aber wie es nun einmal ist: Im selben Mass, wie die Erwachsenen Schopfer sein konnen und bei Fleiss, Ehrgeiz und einigem Gluck auch sind, werden sie gleich nach der Schopfung Geschopfe ihrer eigenen epochemachenden Erfindungen. | Günter Grass | ||
| 4cfd28f | The grim portrait of Beethoven hanging over the piano . . . was removed from its nail, and an equally grim portrait of Hitler was hung on the same nail. . . . Mama . . . insisted that Beethoven be placed, if not over the sofa, at least over the sideboard. This resulted in the grimmest of confrontations: Hitler and the genius hung opposite each other, stared at each other, saw through each other, yet found no joy in what they saw. | Günter Grass | ||
| f192d92 | Doch das sei abermals betont: angestossen, politisch zu werden, hat mich nicht Willy Brandt, sondern der allerchristlichste Kanzler. Er, der sich aus Nachstenliebe den Kommentator der Rassengesetze, Hans Globke, als Staatssekretar hielt, er, dem das christliche Abendland nur bis zur Elbe reichte, er verdachtigte den Emigranten Brandt ,,alias Frahm" unterschwellig des Landesverrats. Sein Christentum katholischer Machart gab ihm ein, unehelic.. | Günter Grass | ||
| d509797 | Two overfed world powers have converted stupidity into armored divisions and atomic warheads. And we sit in between. . . . At last we have understood the lesson of Prague. --Gunter Grass, Die Zeit, October 4, 1968 | Carole K. Fink | ||
| 53ebdb7 | Hoy ya se que todo nos espia, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes tiene mejor memoria que los hombres. Y no es el buen Dios el que lo ve todo. No, una silla de cocina, una percha, ceniceros a medio llenar o la imagen de una mujer llamada Niobe bastan para proporcionar de todo acto un testimonio imperecedero. | dios espía imperecedero memoria testimonio | Günter Grass | |
| b76510d | For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffering. On the other hand, love could be so distilled, spun so fine as to implicate third and fourth persons, as to take up three or four exciting acts in a play. | life love marriage nobel-prize quotes | Günter Grass | |
| 0d3c641 | Hundert teppichklopfende Weiber konnen einen Himmel ersturmen, konnen jungen Schwalben die Flugelspitzen stumpf machen und brachten Oskars in die Aprilluft getrommeltes Tempelchen mit weningen Schlagen zum Einsturz. | Günter Grass | ||
| ba68142 | I've been thinking, Christopher Robin,' said Pooh, 'which do you like best: old friends or new?' Christopher Robin thought and, after a long time, said: 'Well, I like new friends because you never quite know what they'll do next. But I like old friends, too, because, however long you've known them, you are always discovering things you didn't know before. | pooh | Brian Sibley | |
| 0bf7628 | As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 35c6864 | We are talking about love, and love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. Most of us do things each day that do not come "naturally" for us. For some of us, that is getting out of bed in the morning. We go against our feelings and get out of bed. Why? Because we believe there is something worthwhile to do that day. And normally, before the day is over, we feel good about having gotten up. Our actions prece.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 9c5c8a0 | Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 84a2cba | That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 59abac4 | God loves you--as a person and as a unique individual. -- Susan Campbell -- | Gary Chapman | ||
| b1dd88b | An ancient sage once said, "A soft answer turns away anger." | Gary D Chapman | ||
| 170beea | The key to quality time is found in the values and priorities you as parents determine to cherish and implement in your home. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 85e127a | He dreams of buying a new car, but she flatly says, "We can't afford it." | Gary Chapman | ||
| bda8818 | Inside every child is an 'emotional tank' waiting to be filled with love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 880c1a2 | Write a love letter, a love paragraph, or a love sentence to your spouse, and give it quietly or with fanfare! You may someday find your love letter tucked away in some special place. Words are important! 6. Compliment your spouse in the presence of his parents or friends. You will get double credit: Your spouse will feel loved and the parents will feel lucky to have such a great son-in-law or daughter-in-law. | Gary Chapman | ||
| d586fed | your child, like a flower, will benefit from your love. When the water of love is given, your child will bloom and bless the world with beauty. Without that love, she will become a wilted flower, begging for water. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 95d298c | We needed love before we "fell in love," and we will need it as long as we live." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 5b503dd | The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed | Gary Chapman | ||
| 15ea258 | One way to express love emotionally is to use words that build up. Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, "The tongue has the power of life and death."2 Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other. Solomon further noted, "An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 34a3896 | Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 4784c1e | No matter how hard you try to express love in English, if your spouse understands only Chinese, you will never understand how to love each other. | Gary Chapman | ||
| f61116b | True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. -- James Stuart Bell -- | Gary Chapman | ||
| 44252dc | love hugging and kissing my wife after we've been apart for a while. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 424a539 | Love is the most important word in the English language--and the most confusing. | Gary D Chapman | ||
| 217ab9d | Even working within the laws of physics, researchers with an anti-God bias often make blind leaps of faith to escape any evidence of God's involvement in the universe. For centuries Christians were criticized for their God-of-the-gaps arguments. Sometimes that criticism was deserved. Christians tended to use gaps in understanding or data to build a case for God's miraculous intervention. Then, when scientific discoveries uncovered a natural.. | Hugh Ross | ||
| 81c48ae | You should not face the world if you are unable to give to the world, | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| 7ce7977 | Hunger makes the best sauce, | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| a535a9c | When I woke the next morning, gray light suffused the bedroom curtains. Tom was still asleep, so I moved through my yoga routine, then tiptoed to the kitchen. A mountain breeze moved languidly through the pines and aspens surrounding our house. I opened the back door for Scout the cat and Jake the bloodhound, and reminded myself that today we were celebrating my only son's seventeenth birthday. Okay, we were two months late. But, so what? I.. | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| a6fc83c | For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend. | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| 23906ed | Zillah took her arm and led her toward the van. Ann kept her arm squeezed against her body so that his fingers would come into contact with the sideswell of her breast. He didn't move his hand away. Soon she felt his fingers begin to move, subtly caressing her, a forefinger darting out to graze her nipple. The nipple shivered erect, | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 600ff64 | She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone. | Sue Grafton | ||
| cc8878e | Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?" - Kinsey Millhone" | Sue Grafton | ||
| b73ceef | Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 0a0aa58 | She held out her hand and we sat there together like grade-school kids on a field trip. "Line up in twos and no talking." Life itself is a peculiar outing. Sometimes I still feel like I need a note from my mother." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2529ec6 | It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e83024e | He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 75dd2cd | It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7c0a117 | Things can fool you sometimes. | Sue Grafton |