Bloedverwanten Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure. — Koren Zailckas

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag. — Kevin Focke

I want to do more comedy ... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on. — Sunny Mabrey

[...] confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches. — William Faulkner

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. — Ayya Khema

I think writing in general can help us deal with anything we fear, anything which troubles us, anything that makes us angry or moves us. In fact, in most cases, writing has to engage with these feelings - the lack of engagement you find in parts of American writing is a form of imperialism turned inward. We don't see the poor, the abject, the destitute in fiction and literature nearly as much as we should. — John Freeman

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. — Gore Vidal

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. — Newt Gingrich

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. — Harvey Fierstein

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. — Barbara Kingsolver

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press. — Dorothy Day

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy. — Alexander Hamilton