Aertgeerts Langdorp Quotes & Sayings

Too often we limit God by focusing upon our need in the present hour rather than how the Lord provides across the span of our entire existence. — George O. Wood

Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer. — John Varley

Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear. — George R R Martin

Homo ferus: wild human. An unpredictable, nocturnal creature usually found in trees. Caution: may cause bewilderment and disorientation. Also, prone to teasing. — Jessica Khoury

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things. — George R R Martin

Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together. — Audrey Niffenegger

Well she was precious like a flower
she grew wild, wild but innocent
a perfect prayer in a desperate hour
she was everything beautiful and different
stupid boy, you can't fence that in
stupid boy, it's like holdin' back the wind — Keith Urban

Alessandro Volta, an Italian count and the inspiration for the eponym "volt," demonstrated this back around 1800 with a clever experiment. Volta had a number of volunteers form a chain and each pinch the tongue of one neighbor. The two end people then put their fingers on battery leads. Instantly, up and down the line, people tasted each other's fingers as sour. — Sam Kean

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause? — Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm not and environmentalist. I'm and earth warrior. — Darryl Cherney

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived. — Touaxia Vang

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there. — Garik Israelian

Populous cities are destroyed by earthquakes, and desolated by pestilence. Ambition is every where devoting its millions to incalculable calamity. Superstition, in a thousand shapes, is employed in brutalizing and degrading the human species, and fitting it to endure without a murmur the oppression of its innumerable tyrants. All this is abstractedly neither good nor evil because good and evil are words employed to designate that peculiar state of our own perceptions, resulting from the encounter of any object calculated to produce pleasure or pain. Exclude the idea of relation, and the words good and evil are deprived of import. — Christopher Hitchens

As at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic — Charles Dickens

I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind? — Pramoedya Ananta Toer