Fjurg Van Der Ploeg Quotes & Sayings

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. — Ilana Mercer

There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it. — Jordi Molla

All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples of India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with it's own intelligence. Then when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. — Henry Van Dyke

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. — Walter Dean Myers

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you. — Colleen Hoover

Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie