Aertssen Westerlo Quotes & Sayings

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done. — John H. Lienhard

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God. — Michael Servetus

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee

That's why," he said speaking with averted face, "I wanted to do something first. I mean, to show I was worthy of you. Not that I could ever really be that. But at any rate to show I wasn't absolutely un-worthy. I wanted to do something. — Aldous Huxley

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me. — D.H. Lawrence

Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope. — Richard Matheson

Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you're at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were - mostly - if you did all that, you'd never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar. — Richard K. Morgan

Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Stong people can walk away - no repercussions, you see, if you attack a stong person. — Sophie Hannah

It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'? — Gregory Bateson

And as for the smell of me on you, that's more than arousing. That's primal. — Anonymous