Bergsma Consulting Quotes & Sayings

Self-government will not work unless the citizens bear the responsibility to vote in such a way that continues their freedoms and their ability to have free elections, that continues their economic prosperity. They have to vote in a way that does not trade the future for the present. This — Eric Metaxas

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. — William Penn

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more. — Evan Esar

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms. — Joseph Wechsberg

When in trouble dial 911; pray. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A stocky zombie with curly orange hair — Brandon Mull

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything. — Martha Grimes

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together. — Simon Kuper

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio") — Tennessee Williams

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side. — John Buchan

If my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours. I am a complete stranger to women; that is, I have never been used to them. You see, I am alone ... I don't even know how to talk to them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up. — Ali Smith

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski