Geurts Makelaar Quotes & Sayings

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?"
"Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused.
"What do you want to call it?"
He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping. — Cassandra Clare

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking; and that whatever any one should advance on that head would, in all probability, be refuted by further experience, and be rejected by posterity. Such mighty revolutions have happened in human affairs, and so many events have arisen contrary to the expectation of the ancients, that they are sufficient to beget the suspicion of still further changes. — David Hume

Instead of becoming depressed that I was in the locked ward of a mental hospital, I pretended I was playing a role in a movie, possibly on my way to an Emmy. — Augusten Burroughs

As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched. — Henry David Thoreau

O God, make me good, but not yet. — Evelyn Waugh

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw

her jeans and sleeveless blouse. — Nicholas Sparks

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things. — Desmond Tutu

Believe in your dreams.Never stop chasing them. — Sophia Malik

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? — John Rhys-Davies

Because being so dependent on people scares me. — Melina Marchetta