Citeren Van Quotes & Sayings

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks. — Joseph P. Kennedy

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy. — Gary Keller

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing! — Imogen Cunningham

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. — Dogen

Truth is one, but the wise men know it as many; God is one, but we can approach Him in many ways. — Anonymous

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful. — Andre Leon Talley

If vanity were a religion, he'd be a fundamentalist. — Rion Amilcar Scott

Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s. — Candace Parker

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing. — Steve Carell

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse. — Evan Esar

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Caesar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble? — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau