Bijgeloof Beschermengel Quotes & Sayings

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. — Jane Austen

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all. — Dale Spender

I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide. — Clive Davis

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go. — Morris West

Industrial agriculture, built according to the single standard of productivity, has dealt with nature, including human nature, in the manner of a monologist or an orator. It has not asked for anything, or waited to hear any response. It has told nature what it wanted, and in various clever ways has taken what it wanted. And since it proposed no limit on its wants, exhaustion has been its inevitable and foreseeable result. This, clearly, is a dictatorial or totalitarian form of behavior, and it is as totalitarian in its use of people as it is in its use of nature. Its connections to the world and to humans and the other creatures become more and more abstract, as its economy, its authority, and its power become more and more centralized. — Wendell Berry

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. — Elihu Root

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons. — Adam Nevill

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity — Edith Wharton

Why not think that sometimes - just sometimes - you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes. — Sylvain Reynard