Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in ihn zu verlieben. Sozusagen ein Alibi für die Liebe.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Karl Von Clausewitz

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship

Rainer Maria Rilke

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

Diane Kruger

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

Julia Child

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Everett Dirksen

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale