"Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner."

-- Christian Friedrich Schonbein

#Strong Quotes #Hero Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.”

Source : Song: That's Not How It Is, Album: Unleashed, 2002
“If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.”
“We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.”
“Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.”
“Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.”
“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers
“Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.”
“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

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