Bruyninckx Quotes & Sayings

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away. — Louise Brooks

Of course much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but what it shows is how that word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear make-up, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humour, you don't use deodorant. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it. — Tan Twan Eng

I love running dresses! I need to make working out as enjoyable as possible, and a cute outfit is definitely part of that. — Lindy Booth

No manager ever won no ballgames. — Sparky Anderson

The only thing I need is for you to be happy. I'll wait right here, until my last breath, for you to be happy. — Dianna Hardy

The curious fact is that biology tells us nothing about desire. And, when you think about it, culture -- novels, movies, opera, and quite a lot of painting -- is about desire, how we manage desire, how we suffer from it, and how it brings us joy when we get things right. A story without desire -- and that means without the insistence of desire -- will be empty, dry, and more or less aimless. That is one reason we read novels, to see how people fall into awkward moral situations and then try to extricate themselves. This is why there is so much anguish in the world: frustrated desire is every bit as miserable as poverty, because desire is no respecter of one's position in life: everyone goes through it. — Peter Watson

I have never been told that I snore. I am sure you're mistaken." He grinned.
"You snore like a big, fat man."
A laugh burst from me. I was sure he was lying. "Stop it," I said, swatting at his shoulder. "You are so inappropriate. What gentleman tells a lady she snores? — Julianne Donaldson

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges