It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.

J.K. Rowling

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Samuel Johnson, Idler #2, April

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Bjork

It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the silence beyond the scream,the gentle weeping that hides beyond tough statements.They hear only the words,the sentences,when there is so much more to take in.People who are too self-absorbed to notice,really see or fathom others.Often,they don't even know themselves.

Esther Verhoef

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert Humphrey

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Anne Bronte

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

Jetzt habe ich es kapiert: Es geht nicht um Fortschritt. Es geht nicht um eine Erfahrung. Nein. Es geht in jedem einzelnen Moment einfach nur darum, in genau diesem Moment das Richtige zu tun.

Matthias B. Krause