Collegiale Consultatie Quotes & Sayings

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. — Victor Hugo

If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated ... they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch. — Alexander Hamilton

I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end. — William Golding

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about. — William Friedkin

Evolution had brought us out of the trees, then culture had neutered the beast, but even a eunuch can get angry. — Jamie Mason

True love is like a stalactite meeting a stalagmite. Complete opposites, but with time, calcium, and a healthy drip system, they meet in the middle. Or one crushes the other. It really depends. — Betsy Schow

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. — Abraham Lincoln

Hatred is self-punishment.Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them? — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms. — Vanna Bonta

Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me. — Antje Traue

She closed her eyes, and as had been her habit over these past couple of days, she began to imagine possible past histories and what she might have done to change them into the new one in which she lived, either inadvertently, or out of a misguided attempt to play God and make the world a better place, or, worse, with malice aforethought. Any time she spent in the past would have been clipped out of history, as neatly as if it had never happened, because it hadn't happened. — Dexter Palmer

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet. — John Hughes

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started. — Gloria Steinem