Eerste Werkdag Quotes & Sayings

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices! — Toussaint Louverture

The things here are stronger
the things that differentiate us from one another are too powerful. The common interest is no longer decisive. It has broken up already and given place to the interest of the individual. Now and then something still will shine through from that other time when we all wore the same rig, but already it is dwindled and dim. These others here are still our comrades and yet our comrades no longer
that is what is so sad. All else went west in the war, but comradeship we did believe in; now only to find that what death could not do, life is achieving; it is driving us asunder. — Erich Maria Remarque

If you think you can do it, you can. — John Burroughs

We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world. — Gregg Popovich

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.' — Saul Alinsky

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s. — Tom Hanks

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free. — Buddy Guy

He suddenly felt the urge to kiss her-hard- upon the mouth. But this- what he felt, it could never be real. Because once the ball was over, she would go back to being an assassin, and he would still be a prince. Dorian swallowed hard. For tonight, though ...
He held her closer. Everyone transformed into mere shadows on the wall. — Sarah J. Maas

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world. — Jimmy Carter

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows. — Louis Bayard

Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality. — Les Brown

I dance to the steps of life, Each step bringing, A new beginning, To the brightness of my day! — Linda J. Wolff

You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working. — Neale Donald Walsch

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use. — Samuel Johnson

In a letter, once, he drew me a picture, or allegorical diagram, imitated from the well-known frontispiece of Hobbes's Leviathan, which showed a Leviathan of human values. In the head there stood a figure labeled SAINT. In the heart, a figure labeled HERO. Twittering round the huge figure there was an insect-like object dressed as a man of fashion of the seventeenth century and labeled GENTLEMAN; from its mouth there issued a balloon in which was written in tiny letters: 'and where do I come in?'. Mirabel, he went on to say, was no part of the Everlasting Gospel, a phrase of Blake's that he had his own meaning for. Perhaps the hunger for magnitude that made him admire Gilgamesh and the Edda, and made Spenser and Milton his favourites, disabled him from an appreciation, which I could not deny, for a world of elegant cuckoldry and cynic wit, so seemingly heartless, a trifler's scum of humanity that sought to be taken for its cream. — Jocelyn Gibb