Chillingly Vertaling Quotes & Sayings

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing. — Brandon Sanderson

Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim - one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel, who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity. Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius.
The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart.
We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame. — Robert G. Ingersoll

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson

Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow. — Richard M. Knittle Jr.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal. — Whitney Otto

You have heard, no doubt, those tales in which the souls of the dead are said to walk abroad, but did you ever hear tell of the soul of a living person walking, split asunder from its mortal body? — K.B. Goddard

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care. — Andrew Saul

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. — Stephen Fry