Boeken Zijn Quotes & Sayings

There was no hastiness or anger in his response. He did not take the disobedience personally. He had trained many horses and mules and knew the value of patient perseverance. In the end, the twelve-month-old submitted his will to his father, sat as he was placed, and became content - even cheerful. He was now ready to quietly sit through three hours of the most boring church service a sleeping patriarch ever attended. — Michael Pearl

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves. — Blanche Willis Howard

Immense France has her freaks of pettiness. That is all. To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I. — Victor Hugo

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. — Rick Kaplan

We don't have to be alone to feel lonely. — Charles F. Glassman

When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word. — F. F. Bosworth

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits. — Charles Koch

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. — Michael Eisner

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. — James Gleick

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Cliches are cliches because they are true. — Harsha Bhogle

Software will never replace the Koran. — Dan Wieden

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time, the discarded times of all the men and women who have lived, worked, dreamed and died in the streets which grow like a willfully organic thing, unfurl like the petals of a mired rose and yet lack evanescence so entirely that they preserve the past in haphazard layers, so this alley is old while the avenue that runs beside it is newly built but nevertheless has been built over the deep-down, dead-in-the-ground relics of the older, perhaps the original, huddle of alleys which germinated the entire quarter. — Angela Carter