Bloemendaal Bank Quotes & Sayings

Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I'll sign over to you my Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys. — Herman Melville

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own. — Alice Thomas Ellis

I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position. — Kendare Blake

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. — Lois Lowry

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand. — Michelle Huneven

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative. — Alfred Kazin

The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility. — Pearl Zhu

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. — George Washington

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end. — John Sulston

If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete. — Carl Jung