Een Spiegel Quotes & Sayings

You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic. — Robert Greene

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz

And - maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this - but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest — Donna Tartt

Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family. — Aida Turturro

I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills. — Tawni O'Dell

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform. — Glenn Hubbard

I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, and my mom grabbed Bluie from the shelf and hugged him to her stomach, and my dad sat down in my desk chair, and without crying he said, 'You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.'
'Okay,' I said.
'Really,' my dad said. 'I wouldn't bullshit you about this. If you were more trouble than you're worth, we'd just toss you out on the streets.'
'We're not sentimental people,' Mom added, deadpan. 'We'd leave you at an orphanage with a note pinned to your pajamas. — John Green

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. — Keith Ferrazzi

Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable. — Mindy Kaling

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things. — David Jeremiah

All love craves unity. — Fulton J. Sheen

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years. — Bulent Ecevit

Her lips thinned, but she ignored the bait. "Schedules have been moved up in all departments, you know. Claire received her new reproduction assignment. It didn't include Tony." "Reproduction assignment? You mean, having a baby?" Leo could feel his face flushing. Somewhere within him, a long-controlled steam pressure began to build. "Do you hide what you're really doing from yourselves with those weasel-words, too? And here I thought the propaganda was just for us peons." Yei started to speak, but Leo overrode her, bursting out, "Good God! Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees - M.S., M.D., Ph.D. . . ." Yei — Lois McMaster Bujold

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth. — Nick Rahall