Gebruiken Frans Quotes & Sayings

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you. — Merle Shain

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.' — E. Stanley Jones

they had not yet been destroyed as Africans completely. Slavery was the curse of their existence; but they had not been robbed yet of that which had been characteristically theirs. They tolerated the baptism and modest garments imposed on them by the French Catholic laws; but in the evenings, they made their cheap fabrics into alluring costumes, made jewelry of animal bones and bits of discarded metal which they polished to look like gold; and the slave cabins of Pointe du Lac were a foreign country, an African coast after dark, in which not even the coldest overseer would want to wander. — Anne Rice

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America — Ilya Ilf

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. — L. Lionel Kendrick

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us
at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums
what should they be? how should they act?
that became our uncertainties. — Anne Roiphe

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. — Pete Hoekstra

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory. — James Richardson

It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler. — Richard M. Weaver

We're all faced with moments when we must choose between the path of convenience or conviction. — Joseph Lieberman

Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history. — Nigel Hamilton