Diepe Nederlandse Quotes & Sayings

In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity. To his sombre and cynical spirit all popular applause was always abhorrent, and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful case than to hand over the actual exposure to some orthodox official, and to listen with a mocking smile to the general chorus of misplaced congratulation. It was indeed this attitude upon the part of my friend and certainly not any lack of interesting material which has caused me of late years to lay very few of my records before the public. My participation in some of his adventures was always a privilege which entailed discretion and reticence upon me. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Things that are jailable crimes on one end of that spectrum become speeding tickets on the other. We find white people on the jail end and black people on the speeding ticket end, but for the most part ... well, for the most part, you know what I mean. That winking understanding we all share about who gets the book thrown at him and who doesn't, that's where American racism has gone: unspoken and hidden, but bureaucratized and automated, and therefore more powerful than ever. — Matt Taibbi

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it. — Mel Brooks

The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one. — Noam Chomsky

Don't you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It's black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! — Nadia Scrieva

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling. — Brian Holguin

There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems. — Buck Brannaman

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ... — Jenna Blum

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. — Russell Simmons

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons. — Rebecca Ferguson

The greatest things are freely given. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens. — Ludwig Von Mises