20 posts tagged “quote of the day”
A day late, but this is what I found in the paper:
Sowohl die geplanten Anschläge durch Kofferbomben im Juni 2006 als auch die Festnahme von drei mutmaßlichen Terroristen im Sauerland im September seien auf "Glück und ermittlerische Sorgfalt" zurückzuführen.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 15./15.12.2007, S. 8
In English (roughly, a little shortend): Both the trolley-bomb attacks of June 2006 and the arrest of the alledged terrorist in September were due to "luck and investigative diligence".
Es ist dem Untertanen untersagt, den Maßstab seiner beschränkten Einsicht an die Handlungen der Obrigkeit anzulegen.
Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg
Logic is the beginning of wisdom not the end.
As a theory of meaning should be a theory of understanding, so a theory of concepts should be a theory of concept possession.
I turn my head, and you may go where you want.
I turn it again, you will stay till you rot.
I have no face, but I live or die
by my crooked teeth - who am I?
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
Sei partita da due mesi e da due mesi, a patre una partolina nella quale mi comunicavi di essere ancora viva, non ho tue notizie.
Granny had led a sedate life until she decided to start pushing crack on a small tropical island just south of the Equator.
It was pretty clear you'd find Wolfgang somewhere no one else wanted to be.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
