Boswandelingen Quotes & Sayings

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him. — Kristin Cashore

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled. — Stephen R. Lawhead

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world. — Stephen King

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees. — Isak Dinesen

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. — William Shakespeare

If God gave you a second chance, would you do anything differently?" I — Paulo Coelho

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. — Michel De Montaigne

Matthew and Lucinda felt at the exact edge of their lives, feeling them close, closer, as near at hand as yet elusive as the wind that whistled in their hair: the true complete lives in which they would at last drown, the oceanic voyage into their thirties and beyond, through which their inchoate yearnings would either be soothed or disappointed, or both. — Jonathan Lethem

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth. — Winston Churchill

Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and
filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out.
If you hope, get ready for a disappointment. — Jodi Picoult

The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over. — Annie Fellows Johnston

You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know ... — Timothy Findley