Wilhelm von Homburg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  • The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

  • The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  • The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  • Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

  • I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

  • Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it

  • It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

  • We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

  • I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.