Common Frisian Quotes & Sayings

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life. — Guy Kawasaki

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. — Khalil Gibran

Thinking isn't just an activity; it manifests as a state of being. — Lori Deschene

How did you know about my candy stash?"
Vincent innocently shrugged. "I needed tape and stumbled across your Willy Wonka drawer — Victoria Michaels

Obviously dick was involved." "Hashtag dick. — Karina Halle

It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten! — Charles Dickens

All of our memories are, like S's, bound together in a web of associations. This is not merely a metaphor, but a reflection of the brain's physical structure. The three-pound mass balanced atop our spines is made up of somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 billion neurons, each of which can make upwards of five to ten thousand synaptic connections with other neurons. A memory, at the most fundamental physiological level, is a pattern of connections between those neurons. Every sensation that we remember, every thought that we think, transforms our brains by altering the connections within that vast network. By the time you get to the end of this sentence, your brain will have physically changed. — Joshua Foer

I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation. — Kevin Mitnick

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. — Georges Cuvier

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping. — David Lereah

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell

Simon Templar was a man who couldn't help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease. — Leslie Charteris