Beleefdheid Quotes & Sayings

Tremendous concentrations of paper wealth have made it possible for a few persons or institutions to endow certain sorts of human playfulness with inappropriate and hence distressing seriousness. I think not only of the mudpies of art, but of children's games as well-running, jumping, catching, throwing.
Or dancing.
Or singing songs. — Kurt Vonnegut

Most people hate to say no - but not nearly as much as other people hate to hear it. — Dianna Daniels Booher

Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week ... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure. — Julian Huxley

There is a woman at the begining of all great things. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Age carries with it a double load of guilt — Jose Saramago

From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West." — Meredith Willson

The 2015 edition updates the 2013 edition with more than 40 pages of new content. — D.K. Segraves

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long. — Brenda Perlin

My trust in you was like the small child's; who, when thrown in the air, expects to be caught, but you dropped me down, and not a moan escaped my lips. — Faraaz Kazi

Oh, you'll go. You'll go if I have to drag you there by your fucking hair," he warned her. "You'd probably love that," she snapped. "So would you. — Stylo Fantome