Gossaert Painter Quotes & Sayings

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom. — P. J. O'Rourke

Roads are long; make them short with a good company! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. — Wendell Phillips

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. — Mae West

Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know!"
"Okay," Eliot said. "It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose any meaningful distinction between you, and you carry the knowledge that you are insufficient without her every day for twenty years, until she drives an animal transport at you, and you shoot her. It's that. — Max Barry

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians. — Rabih Alameddine

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. — Marcus Aurelius

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Quick Ben, tell me, who was the toughest Bridgeburner you ever knew? Think back, and think carefully. Get your ego out of the way. Ignore your favorites and the ones who spent all their time looking mean. Not the callous shits, not the back-stabbers, none of the posers. The toughest, Quick Ben. Day in, day out, good times, bad. Tell me. Who?"
The High Mage squinted, glanced down at the ground at this feet, and then he sighed and nodded, looking up as he said, "I didn't need that list, Ganoes. I knew my answer right from the start. We all knew."
"Who?"
"Fiddler. There's no tougher man alive. — Steven Erikson

God has hidden mighty and mysterious things for us, not from us. — Bill Johnson

Arnold Schwarzenegger met with President Bush. It's amazing if you think about it. It was the Terminator and the One-Term-inator. — David Letterman

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature. — Roger Ebert

He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his own brains and being. Four years, he had earned his own bread and keep, fended for himself, had not only remained alive and well but had put together a small fishing fleet of his own, and kept it alive and functioning and fought the wind and the weather and met a payroll of eleven men in his crews-and be damned with the lot of them if he'd go into a funk over which spoon or knife to use. — Howard Fast

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should. — Howard Dean