Geert Jan Jansen Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter. — Vincent Nichols

Sour taste of obligation postponed, — Roland Merullo

Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council. — Chris Rock

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist. — Philip K. Dick

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything. — Andrew Solomon

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. — Robert C. Solomon

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible ... And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents. — Bernhard Schlink

Big surprise. You didn't dress up."
"I came as Awesome Sauce," I say. "You probably wouldn't recognize it. — Victoria Scott

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't. — Sasha Alexander

Mimosa did lose its first freshness too quickly to be worth buying and I must not allow myself to have feelings, but must only observe the effects of other people's. — Barbara Pym

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. — Robin Sharma

Now there is a fitting sword for a Rider and dragon! said Saphira in a delighted tone. It breathes fire as easily as I do. — Christopher Paolini