Dewaele Aalter Quotes & Sayings

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away. — Jonathan Haidt

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why. — Ed Zern

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. — George Meredith

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River. — George Vecsey

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca The Younger

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you. — Miley Cyrus

Staring up at me, hearing my tired voice, he reached out his tiny hand. He knew me, even though he had never seen me before. And I knew him. He was the love I'd been trying to express my whole life. — Noah Hawley

An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt ... There is no place for sentiment in politics. — Joe Abercrombie

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Personally, I don't mind a good cry. In fact, if I cry while chopping onions, I'll run to the bathroom mirror and recite one of my favorite lines from Poltergeist: "Don't you touch my babies!!!" It's the part where the kids are being sucked into the bedroom closet for the second time and JoBeth Williams is at HER WIT'S END! It's very dramatic. — Clinton Kelly

For the first time that evening, a small idea was uttered by the representative of this extraordinary company. Schmidt spoke of invigorating the Google PAC, and pushing harder to get their side of the issue better heard.
And I thought, Wow. This is a Google solution to this, the most important problem facing this republic? This the most they can imagine? — Lawrence Lessig

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. — Molly Ivins

My interest in this started one night when I was doing stand-up in a small club in New York. I was talking about texting and I asked for a volunteer who'd met someone recently and had been texting back and forth with them. I read the back-and-forth messages of one gentleman and made jokes about how we were all dealing with some version of this nonsense. I quickly noticed that one woman seemed very puzzled. I asked her why she looked so bewildered, and she explained that this was something that just didn't happen in France, where she was from. This kind of back-and-forth simply didn't exist, she claimed. I asked her, "Okay, well, what would a guy in France text you, if you met him at a bar?" She said, "He would write . . . 'Fancy a fuck?'" And I said, "Whoa. What would you write back?" She said, "I would write yes or no depending on whether I fancied one or not." I was stunned - that kind of makes so much more sense, right? — Aziz Ansari

Love is love and shouldn't upset anyone. So what else are they thinking about when they get upset at your partner preferences?" she asked reasonably, and then answered the question herself. "Their minds are in your pants and on what you do. And while they're welcome to bury their brain in their own pants, they have no business in yours. — Lynsay Sands