Amerikaanse Jaarboek Quotes & Sayings

The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon. — Michael Lewis

eclipsed and forgotten by Mussolini's brief but disastrous alliance with Hitler. — Tom Reiss

Curiosity is the most delightful of all human characteristics
"I see. No men in her life then?"
-"Not unless you count Jack Daniels and Johnny Walkers — Kathleen Tessaro

Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. — Terry Pratchett

For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny ... — Oprah Winfrey

Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits. — Geoffrey Miller

Social media: the promise of friends at the price of friendship. — Matthew Keefer

I put my arms around your waist and pull you in, holding you, letting you know I'm with you. I tell you that you can do this, that you're strong enough and brave enough. I tell you that you can do anything. So you nod and agree to jump. — Jessica Park

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else. — Bryan Kest

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day. — Wen Jiabao

Whether you're at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass. — Dashama Konah Gordon

As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God. — A.W. Tozer