Gebroken Zijn Quotes & Sayings

Getting air may have determined the way we got our bodies. — Christopher McDougall

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard

En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor. — Agatha Christie

Instead of saying "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues", say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over. — Unknown

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life. — Salman Rushdie

My heels click on the tile floor, and I feel like a velociraptor. — Lily Paradis

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. — Philip Larkin

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. — Norman Borlaug

This, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, — George Orwell

I was so happy when I found out the wounds you'd inflicted weren't serious, that you had stopped."
"Yes, I stopped. Barry, all of you, see what I did as this suicide attempt. But I didn't want to die. I only wanted my mom to hear me. To come find me. To see that I was sad. To help me, I guess. I just didn't have it in me to tell her what I needed. And fine, I get now that she couldn't read my mind."
He wiped his eyes again.
"But I didn't get it then. I'm so mad at myself. What was wrong with me that I couldn't just tell her? That I didn't have the capacity to ask her for anything. — Anne Eliot

Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children, too. Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world. — Benjamin Zander

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right. — Carol Burnett

I have sometimes thought that all philosophical disputes could be reduced to an argument between the partisans of "prickles" and the partisans of "goo." The prickly people are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things. They prefer particles to waves, and discontinuity to continuity. The gooey people are tender-minded romanticists who love wide generalizations and grand syntheses. They stress the underlying unities, and are inclined to pantheism and mysticism. Waves suit them much better than particles as the ultimate constituents of matter, and discontinuities jar their teeth like a compressed-air drill. — Alan W. Watts