Bevelen Betekenis Quotes & Sayings

The Christian calendar is wrong, Jesus was born years earlier. — Pope Benedict XVI

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior? — Buchi Emecheta

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. — Aesop

War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures. — Barbara Ehrenreich

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things. — Richard Paul Evans

15. In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed. — Sun Tzu

In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sight above him with horrid escarpments, a kind of frightful accumulation of things, of laws, of prejudices, of men, and of acts, the outlines of which escaped him, the weight of which appalled him, and which was no other than that prodigious pyramid that we call civilization. — Victor Hugo