Bijzonder Quotes & Sayings

... it does clarify a tough to get it spoken, even if no one listens. — John Steinbeck

Lorcan rose to his feet, swaying again. But Elide was there. And there was nothing of the young woman he'd come to know in her pale, taut face. Nothing of her in the raw voice as Elide said to Lorcan, "I hope you spend the rest of your miserable, immortal life suffering. I hope you spend it alone. I hope you live with regret and guilt in your heart and never find a way to endure it." Then — Sarah J. Maas

I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is
a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the
system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's
lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction,
but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such
a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really
be hard pressed to find it flattering. — Eldridge Cleaver

I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking. — Jessye Norman

There is a French version of the story, and a true one. — Stephen Clarke

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right. — Alan Keyes

And we'll never love anyone else but each other. — Ernest Hemingway,

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it's interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School:
In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all. — Marc Kirschner

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. — William Hazlitt

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition. — Sonny Rollins

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating. — Daniel Johns