"The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations."

-- Heinrich Heine

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.”
“In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”
“The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.”
“A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.”
“When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (1992). “The Earth House”
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
“Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career”

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