Albrandswaard Quotes & Sayings

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. — Mao Zedong

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. — Marcus Aurelius

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy. — Charles Stanley

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. — Wilferd Peterson

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan. — Cheng Man-ch'ing

The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove.

- Air — Federico Garcia Lorca

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. — Sloane Crosley

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level. — Curt Sachs

When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.
It becomes you. Greatness becomes you. — Lorii Myers

Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King
Else, wherefore born? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

love is a poverty you couldn't sell — Beck

You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing. — Warren Buffett

Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914. — Fiona McIntosh

We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she'll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beauty. They'll all laugh about her tree-climbing, frog-catching days.
But there's no such tolerance for the boy who puts on a dress, who wants a toy kitchen or a baby doll to love. Jung would say that this is because, even culturally, our anima is repressed, hated, derided. We hate our female selves. A boyish girl is perfectly acceptable. A girlish boy? Not so much. In certain places, you'd get your ass kicked, find yourself "gay-bashed." You might even get yourself killed. That's how much we hate our anima. — Lisa Unger

We say in Japan that those who travel for love find a thousand miles not longer than one. Though — Marc Cameron