Gewonnen Veilingen Quotes & Sayings

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me. — Olivia Newton-John

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. — Bernard Malamud

Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive ... He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps, he only hinders. And yet one cannot do without him. I can imagine a God feeling in just that way about some of us. The saints, one would suppose, in a sense create themselves. They come alive. They are capable of the surprising act or word. The stand outside the plot, unconditioned by it. But we have to be pushed around. We have the obstinancy of non-existence. We are inextricably bound to the plot, and wearily God forces us, here and there, according to his intention, characters without poetry, without free will, whose only importance is that somewhere, at some time, we help to furnish the scene in which a living character moves and speaks, perhaps the saints with the opportunities for their free will. — Graham Greene

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. — John Milton

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. — Carl Rogers