„Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)
Podobne cytaty
„God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.“
— Ben Stein actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944
"A Long Memorial Day" American Spectator (1 June 2010) http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/01/a-long-memorial-day
„God bless you, my dear!“
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Vol IV
„Bless our Mountain Greenery home!
In a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together“
— Lorenz Hart lyricist 1895 - 1943
Mountain Greenery http://www.lorenzhart.org/greenarysng.htm (1935)
„I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.“
— Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004
Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis http://www.nationalreview.com/document/reagan_sunset200406070915.asp (5 November 1994)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Kontekst: In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.
„I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!“
— Christopher McCandless American hiker and explorer 1968 - 1992
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
„Take heart, my friends! There is a God! There is a God!“
— Aurangzeb Sixth Mughal Emperor 1618 - 1707
Dili, Yarana! Khuda hai! Khuda hai!
Aurangzeb during battle with Dara Shikoh Also in Guru Tegh Bahadur, Prophet and Martyr: A Biography by Trilochan Singh [ Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, 1967] p. 98 Also in Heroes of Islam Series: Mohy-ud-Din Alamgir Aurangzeb by Fazl Ahmad [ Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1960] p. 54 Also in Aurangzib And The Decay Of The Mughal Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=JodvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 by Stanley Lane Poole [Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-782-89473-X]
Quotes from late medieval histories
„God bless pop music and God bless MTV.“
— Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986
MTV Video Music Awards 2010.
„My friend, the moon god was Allah.“
— Jack T. Chick Christian comics writer 1924 - 2016
He was just one of 360 idols in the Ka'aba in Mecca. And Muhammad knew all about this. The crescent moon is everywhere in Islam. Even Ramadan begins and ends with the crescent moon. Ask your mullah why!
" Allah Had No Son http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp" (1994)
„Who will not be proud to concur with my honored friend in promoting the greatest act of national benefit, and securing to the Africans the greatest blessing which God has ever put in the power of man to confer on his fellow creatures?“
— Samuel Romilly British politician 1757 - 1818
Quoted in Memoir of William Wilberforce, Thomas Price (Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836), pages 59–60. https://ia902609.us.archive.org/5/items/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog.pdf
Slave Trade Bill speech (1807)
„While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.“
— W.B. Yeats, książka The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Źródło: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, IV
Kontekst: My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
„God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!)
God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender.
But who Pretender is, and who is King,
God bless us all! That's quite another thing!“
— John Byrom Poet, inventor of a shorthand system 1692 - 1763
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
„Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth.“
— William McKinley American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901) 1843 - 1901
Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s
„The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.“
— T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader 1963
On the blessings in persecution - "Persecution Has Increased My Blessings – TB Joshua https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/1132/persecution-has-increased-my-blessings-tb-joshua.html Modern Ghana (September 17 2009)
„No roaming now, my wars are passed away,
No long dull days devoid of happiness,
When such a love my yearning heart shall bless.“
— William Morris author, designer, and craftsman 1834 - 1896
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Kontekst: So on he went, and on the way he thought
Of all the glorious things of yesterday,
Nought of the price whereat they must be bought,
But ever to himself did softly say
"No roaming now, my wars are passed away,
No long dull days devoid of happiness,
When such a love my yearning heart shall bless."
„I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.
They're in my head.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Źródło: Artwork.
„It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.“
— Daniel Webster Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of State for three… 1782 - 1852
Źródło: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136