Quotes & Sayings About Amsterdam Netherlands

Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. It was like an overgrown toy train that had gotten loose on the streets. She looked out and saw the Netherlands wobbling by - its ancient houses and constant canals and people in practical shoes. — Maureen Johnson

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death. — Kingsley Amis

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted. — John Taylor Gatto

Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp — Abbi Glines

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. — Wilfrid Laurier

Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway. — Raymond Chandler

I hate feminism. It is poison, — Margaret Thatcher

Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it's happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection ... no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present. — Russell Shorto

That was the trouble with life - it never quite fulfilled its promises. — Betsy Byars

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions ... — Dream Hampton

You'd be surprised
just how many people
are autistic. Stop the stereotypes. — Tina J. Richardson

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. — Pierre Corneille

The nourishment is palatable. — Millard Fillmore

I'm sorry. The KGB did not have classes in cracker. — Larry Correia

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature. — Karim Rashid

And yet, his eyes kept drifting to the walkway beside the canal, his impatience growing. He was better than this. Waiting was the part of the criminal life so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn't like the weather, you didn't rush into the storm - you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet. — Leigh Bardugo

But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon. — Joseph Addison