Biesheuvel Nederland Quotes & Sayings

I'd entered the bliss of Washington, physically and emotionally: eating huckleberries, feeling beautiful and finally in control of my self. Feeling the changing season, my self changed. — Aspen Matis

There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in her middle. For years she had thought him a stranger. Now, here, on this road by uncertain light she saw again such acute feeling in the beautiful eyes of the boy she had once adored. She let herself look at his arm so firmly about the little girl, a child he barely knew yet felt the responsibility to protect, and something hard and encrusted inside her shattered. — Katharine Ashe

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. — Thomas Piketty

What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles. — Robert Sheehan

Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Moist realized that there had to be an explanation for this, but the only one he could think of now was: It's strange. — Terry Pratchett

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way. — Francis Bacon

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages. — Jesmyn Ward

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described. — Conrad Black

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures. — Jean M. Auel

What is the good of religion without personal spiritual direction? — Thomas Merton

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes. — Donald Hall

I love my hunting dog. I loved my hunting dog - I'm not very good at hunting. — Bonnie McFarlane

way." You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need. — Craig Groeschel