Geweldig English Quotes & Sayings

Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it. — Pat Robertson

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway. — Terry Pratchett

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. — Sam Walton

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man. — Meljean Brook

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time. — Henry David Thoreau

She speculates for the first time on what Melanie could have been, could have become, if she'd lived before the Breakdown. If she'd never been bitten and infected. Because this is a child here, whatever else she is, and she's never lost that sense of her own centre before except when she smelled blood and turned, briefly into an animal. And look at how pragmatically, how ruthlessly, she's coped with that. But Justineau only pursues this train of thought for a moment. When Melanie starts to speak, she commands their full attention. "I — M.R. Carey

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J.H. Boetcker

it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. — Truman Capote

Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live. — Etgar Keret

This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country. — John F. Kennedy

I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am. — Jai Uttal

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all. — RuPaul

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds. — Frederick Lenz