Geslaagd Quotes & Sayings

All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad. — Ted Cruz

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct. — Richard Serra

A glorious deed is to keep the peace. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The pen can be just as dangerous as a sword... At least while walking. — A.J. DeJong

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential facts of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex world wide states that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. — H.G.Wells

I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress. — Rachel E. Carter

Freedom is nothing if you don't take it with your bare hands. — Scott Keen

With time, she will disappear completely from his life, which is a shame because he's unlikely to find another woman like her, for all her defects. — Paulo Coelho

We don't have to be superstars or win championships ... . All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it. — John Wooden

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. — Robert Orben

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate. — Lillie Devereux Blake

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching. — Deepika Padukone