Beschrijfbare Quotes & Sayings

You have a choice everyday ... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy. — Norman Vincent Peale

I want to keep her, but I don't want to tie her. I need her to be able to run, but not to want to. I need her to know
that. I need her to feel safe with me. Fuck it, I just need her. — Jane Lovering

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief.
Why hadn't I noticed this in him? Why did I see only the superficial way he talked about politics or the pedantic way he tasted the wine? — Paulo Coelho

One of the things we haven't taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven't told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them. WE haven't told our people that they are valuable. I sometimes pass little boys playing in the road and I would stop my car and say to them: 'Excuse me baby, do you realize how valuable you are? Do not play in the road, if anything happen to you that is going to hurt us. Because you might be our Prime Minister one day. Iris Adderley, consultant in the Disability Affairs Devision of The Department of Social Services. — Drexel Deal

Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~ — Niki Herd

History is filled with fictional people. — Robyn Schneider

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time. — Virginia Woolf

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. — Douglas MacArthur

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years. — Elbert Hubbard

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed. — Joseph Chamberlain

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older. — Madeleine L'Engle

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. — Shawn Johnson

It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz. — Jennifer Lopez