Alternatieve Vierdaagse Quotes & Sayings

Did you just smack me in the face with a fish?"
"I did."
"Why did you just smack me in the face with a fish, Danny? — Scott Sigler

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction. — Theodore Roszak

The potential within you is greater than the obstacles around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there's a lot of space inside words. — Charles Simic

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood. — Thomas Bernhard

Every people, like every person, ... has a right to be itself. — Mikhail Bakunin

It was easier for me to hate everyone in town than hate myself for being afraid I'd be just like them. — John Corey Whaley

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation. — Martin Sorrell

A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established - more than a decade after that was no longer true - or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence. — Naomi Oreskes

The humility of a warrior is not the same humility as that of a servile man. The warrior does not lower his head to anyone, and nor does he allow anyone to bow before him. The servile man, on the other hand, kneels before anyone he believes to be more powerful, and demands that the people under his command behave in a similar fashion before him. — Paulo Coelho

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. — Lewis Mumford