Bleyenberg Vleeswaren Quotes & Sayings

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget. — Jerry Speyer

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope. — Colman Domingo

People sometimes need to laugh, relax, and not take themselves so seriously. — Jones Loflin

I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Every trauma provides an opportunity for authentic transformation. Trauma amplifies and evokes the expansion and contraction of psyche, body, and soul. It is how we respond to a traumatic event that determines whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Medusa turning us into stone, or whether it will be a spiritual teacher taking us along vast and uncharted pathways. In the Greek myth, blood from Medusa's slain body was taken in two vials; one vial had the power to kill, while the other had the power to resurrect. If we let it, trauma has the power to rob our lives of vitality and destroy it. However, we can also use it for powerful self-renewal and transformation. Trauma, resolved, is a blessing from a greater power. — Ann Frederick

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. — Nancy Werlin

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that. — Julio Cortazar

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity ... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance? — Mumia Abu-Jamal

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation. — Nevill Francis Mott

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them. — Tommy Wiseau

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. — Dalai Lama

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt