Besmettelijke Quotes & Sayings

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. — Charles Lamb

But then what were physical feelings if not more electrical messages from the brain? Why believe in them either? Was there anything trustworthy in the Universe that one could hug and hold on to in the midst of a butterfly storm, other than a Hawaliusian wind staunch? — Eoin Colfer

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so. — William Shakespeare

It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette — David Chiles

One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don't know enough to offer good advice. — Eric M. Jackson

Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy?" answered Gildor. "Flee them! Speak no words to them! They are deadly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind. — Jodi Picoult

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information. — Laila Ali

It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while sleeping on the lap of carnal security. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. — Rita Dove

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight. — Richard Simmons

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better. — Heather Burns