Frederiek De Vette Quotes & Sayings

Thus was this expedition finished ... after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.
Voyage Around The World, 1751 — George Anson

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. — Alice Hoffman

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. — Morgan Freeman

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw — Eboo Patel