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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4348d7 | Why should I be melancholy? England wasn't in sight yet. | Max Frisch | ||
| 8b72ada | Boys!" she said. "You can't imagine what they're like--they think you're their mother, and that's frightful!" | Max Frisch | ||
| 47f96d6 | In Florence I rebelled and told her that frankly I thought her Fra Angelico rather mawkish. Then I corrected myself and said "naive." She didn't deny it, on the contrary, she was delighted; it couldn't be naive enough for her. What I enjoyed was campari!" | Max Frisch | ||
| ab2370b | We talked about constellations--the usual thing, when two people haven't yet discovered which one knows less about the stars than the other; the rest is romantic fantasy, which I can't bear. | Max Frisch | ||
| 9263959 | There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 308a07f | D]as Meer war unzerstorbar. Tausend Flotten hinterliessen auf ihm keine Spur. Das Meer sah jeden Tag anders aus und blieb sich darin bis in Ewigkeit gleich. Solange es das Meer gab, war die Welt nicht elend. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| d3e2410 | Es gibt nichts Fruhlingshafteres als rostbraunschwarze Bahnhofsanlagen vor knospenden Baumen, beschienen von praller Sonne. Die Menschen sind noch hellgesichtig, weisshalsig und bleicharmig und gleissen im Licht. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| e49bd9d | Das Land zwischen Hamburg und Sylt bestand aus lauter Striemen. Waagerecht: das waren die Acker, Feldraine und Mistbahnen. Senkrecht: der Regen! | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 22e7100 | Ein ausverkauftes, erwartungsvoll gestimmtes Kino ist ein Erlebnis. Die Phantasien uber den bevorstehenden Film bekommen Barenkrafte. Wenn er dann wirklich spannend ist, wird die Sache unvergesslich. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| fd5dbf3 | Uber den schon leuchtend grunen Wiesenhugeln stand die volle Nachmittagssonne. Die Baume schlugen so kraftig aus, dass man geradezu ausweichen musste. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 9541bfa | Es krankt mich etwas, wie selbstverstandlich der Spatsommer leuchtet, auch ohne dass ich guter Laune bin. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 37c4d49 | So, jetzt besuche ich Freunde, jetzt lasse ich mich energisch auf Menschen ein! Ab heute geht es aufwarts, ich werde mein Ohr offnen und lernen, das ist ja nicht utopisch, das konnen andere auch. In Starnberg habe ich meinen elektrischen Rasierer vergessen. Gut, mir auch recht! Ich rasiere mich in Zukunft nass! Wenn ich schon einen neuen Anfang mache, dann gleich mehrere! Und das Schreiben lasse ich sein. Schluss mit dem Notieren, jetzt nur.. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| f10eccf | Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, dass die Tuchtigen standig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verandern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben." -- | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 4c69e8f | Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitan ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es vertragt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 3c5fc91 | Und dann der Herbst! Unausstehlich, wenn man selber herbstelt! Alte Bunker erspahte ich, brockelnde Mauern, erste gelbe Blatter, Morgennebel, Abendrauch. In fruheren Jahren war bei mir das erste Anzeichen von Herbst immer eine Nachdenklichkeit, ein frommes Gefuhl, eine Bereitschaft zu dienendem Fleiss - naturlich eine Spatfolge aus der Schulzeit! Im Herbst wurden neue, glatte, saubere Hefte angefangen, die erste Seite immer in Schonschrift. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 244d1f5 | This gigantic figure grew effortlessly in his dream, emerging from the deceptively eternal expanse of the horizon; it was like a truth that would make everything different. A crater opened up towards heaven, a mouth or a gorge. Perhaps the whole thing was a leviathan, perhaps a dance of millions of tiny creatures. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 105ae0b | That's because the most competent among them will always try to change that small part of the world which they know. One of these days they'll discover the world instead of improving it, and not forget what they already discovered. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| f394481 | Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are coincidence and contradiction.' John | Sten Nadolny | ||
| d1bac56 | The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing. --STEN NADOLNY, AUTHOR OF THE DISCOVERY OF SLOWNESS (1996) | Carl Honoré | ||
| ae5463d | Spater kamen wir noch in Marchen vor, immer mit allerhand magischen Instrumenten, sozusagen Wundertechnik: Lampen, Ringe, Hute, Tische, die Essen herbeizauberten, Geister in Flaschen, Zauberstabe, alles nur ein netter Unfug. Und den Fliegenden Teppich gibt es auch nur, wenn Du Dich in die Lufte hebst und einen Teppich mitnimmst. Die meisten Menschen glauben auch heute noch irgendwie an eine Magie der Dinge (das lasst sie stets mehr Zeug kau.. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| b665958 | Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 33cc943 | Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence - like the stars, the mountains and the sea. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 243a53b | Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence - like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn possessed no words with which to tell what they had come to know from their long existence. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 112157e | Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 10a9be0 | When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 6845788 | I heard nothing, but ever more clearly as the light of the half-moon grew sharper, I thought I could make out a dark shape, and soon, as it came nearer, I saw it. It sat on a horse, a high-boned, haggard white horse. A dark mantle fluttered across the figure's shoulders, and as he flew past, two burning eyes stared at me out of a pale face. | Theodor Storm | ||
| abc61c2 | Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose behind the storm, and shone through the gusty rifts, lighting the mountain-crests here and there, while the plain below lay shrouded in the lingering night. The angry, level rays edged the dark clouds with crimson, and turned the downpour into.. | nature storm thunderstorm | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| da79507 | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." --Walt Disney "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." --Teddy Roosevelt "There are no regrets in life. Just lessons." --Jennifer Aniston" -- | Bathroom Readers' Institute | ||
| f0c8136 | The current "Black Studies" programs are white studies programs in blackface. | African-American studies | ||
| 0e14ea7 | He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists. | Afrikaans | ||
| 37e6e6f | Witnesses to his whoppers realized that Reagan was not lying but had persuaded himself of the validity of his tales. "He finds it next to impossible to say anything that is not in some crucial way untrue," wrote the journalist Jack Beatty. "It's not a credibility gap, for there is no evidence of cynical or even conscious duplicity. The President is so far out of touch that it amounts to a reality gap." Still, listeners were often dumbfounde.. | William E. Leuchtenburg | ||
| 04c64a2 | Theodore Roosevelt had made numerous decisions during his long and storied career--some were good, some bad, some indifferent, and some that turned out to be absolute disasters. He always firmly believed the nature of a good leader was not to be perfect--men were mortal and not Gods--but to be bold, hold true to your own principles, and to issue quick and decisive edicts. Roosevelt often marveled at the instincts | Mark Paul Jacobs | ||
| bf4b239 | The final word belongs to one of Truman's aides, George Elsey. "It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing," he commented subsequently. "The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing." | William E. Leuchtenburg | ||
| e397c4e | In other words, in Barack Obama's world, incrementalism is good enough. Fortunately, nobody ever told that to FDR or Teddy Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson. | Bill Press | ||
| 58f85eb | You're just a kid. Have fun. Go play in the fluff." "Not over here, though," said a pale, miserable figure from behind a nearby pile. "I've constructed a Fortress of Solitude." Lex watched the dentist for a moment more, then gave up. "What's wrong, Edgar?" "Nothing." He pouted. "Okay, everything." He sighed dramatically as he approached, greasy black hair falling into his face. "I bit my tongue this morning, I dropped guacamole onto my favo.. | Gina Damico | ||
| 9a373f2 | San Francisco was the poster child for growing America. Brash, striving and never satisfied, it embodied the spirit of a nation feeling its oats. From President Teddy Roosevelt to the newest immigrant to land on its shores, America was in vigorous pursuit of greatness. Always bold, often blundering, and seldom tactful, America was reaching for the brass ring with both hands. | Monique Martin | ||
| f455cc1 | The permeating heat, combined with Teddy's lifetime struggle with asthma, often felt like a prizefighter's right-handed roundhouse to his fifty-four-year-old gut. And to make matters worse--and verified by personal accounts offered by the experienced Brazilian officers--his misery would only worsen as they descended into the heart of the Amazon's sweltering jungle. Theodore Roosevelt possessed a keen sense of own body's steady decline with .. | Mark Paul Jacobs | ||
| f4ae42c | Theodore Roosevelt possessed a keen sense of own body's steady decline with his advancing age, and he inwardly bemoaned the lessening of his usual copious vitality. If only I could recapture just a sliver of youth, he pondered. If only I could gather enough strength to reclaim some of my former vigor, before all is lost on this most inhospitable continent. Yet | Mark Paul Jacobs | ||
| 9f00f1c | Then I remembered something I'd read that Teddy Roosevelt had said: "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...who strives...who spends himself...and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls wh.. | Charlie A. Beckwith | ||
| 6f52b54 | James Buchanan's collegiate record for "spirited" rambunctiousness arguably rivals that of George" | Mark Will-Weber | ||
| 25ef8dd | James Buchanan's collegiate record for "spirited" rambunctiousness arguably rivals that of George W. Bush while a student at Yale." | Mark Will-Weber | ||
| d4646a8 | Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people. | Afrikaans | ||
| 1e91f80 | Afrikaans is a cancer that must be destroyed. | Afrikaans | ||
| 9f8c563 | When America liked it? When Cuba was racially segregated? When education was only available to a privileged few? When the poor died of easily curable ailments? When vice was rampant? Had they preferred Batista's mafia-infested Cuba? Or the Cuba between the state that Teddy Roosevelt preened to subjugate and Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to keep? | Randall Robinson |