Minas Faer

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

– Dag Hammarskjold Weiterlesen »

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

– Harry S. Truman Weiterlesen »

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

– William Shakespeare, King Henry V Weiterlesen »

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

– Sallust Weiterlesen »

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

– Oscar Wilde Weiterlesen »

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

– Abraham Lincoln Weiterlesen »

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

– Eleanor Roosevelt Weiterlesen »

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

– Sir Francis Bacon Weiterlesen »

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

– Joseph Farrell Weiterlesen »

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

– Georgia O’Keefe Weiterlesen »