Augustijnenkerk Quotes & Sayings

(from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is no way to live, to wait to love. — Dave Eggers

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system. — Jules Michelet

The best to do with a death was to move on from it. — Larry McMurtry

Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live! — CLAMP

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness. — Deanna Herrmann

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them ... — Victoria Moran

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. — Martin Luther

Racism - if you look closely - is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War - if you look closely - is about profit. Poverty, which is not, and never has been, an accident - if you look closely - is about profit. — Stan Goff

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.". — John Denver

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. — Billy Zane

It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two — Billy Joel

The place was stifling. Suddenly it occurred to her that a trace of him still lurked in her, minute and spectral, that effluvial stain that would be her stigmata forever. It was then that she resolved to ask for an appointment to see him, as things had to be settled between them. — Edna O'Brien