Eyckerman Tuin Quotes & Sayings

Crisis. It was a time of sustained anxiety for anybody who read a newspaper or listened to the news on the radio, and that included his mother, Mrs. Florence Woodhouse, who was anxious at the best of times and even more so at the worst. What was the point of continuing the human race when nuclear self-immolation seemed to be such a real and imminent possibility? That was the question that occurred to Florence as she was admitted to the delivery ward of a small country hospital in Norfolk. — Alexander McCall Smith

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen. — Tony Blair

Life gives everybody equal chance to become successful and prosperous. — Sunday Adelaja

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. — Courtney Barnett

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered ... it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful. — G.K. Chesterton

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with. — Andy Hargreaves