Grenzen Nederland Quotes & Sayings

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Still, we've gone soft since those days of wartime sacrifice, haven't we? Contemporary humans are too self-centered, too addicted to gratification to live without the full freedom to satisfy our every whim - or so our culture tells us every day. And yet the truth is that we continue to make collective sacrifices in the name of an abstract greater good all the time. We sacrifice our pensions, our hard-won labor rights, our arts and after-school programs. We send our kids to learn in ever more crowded classrooms, led by ever more harried teachers. We accept that we have to pay dramatically more for the destructive energy sources that power our transportation and our lives. We accept that bus and subway fares go up and up while service fails to improve or degenerates. We accept that a public university education should result in a debt that will take half a lifetime to pay off when such a thing was unheard of a generation ago. — Naomi Klein

We're sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs. — Jandy Nelson

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced. — Sonia Sotomayor

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder — Alfred Hitchcock

Wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life. — Tony Evans

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate. — Brian Friel

The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen. — Warren Spector

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. — Mark Nepo

Any woman who was breathing noticed Jacob Decker. Hell, it was possible he could walk through a graveyard and his very presence would call up the dead females as zombies rabid to get just an undead glimpse of him, he was that noticeable of a male. — Kristen Ashley

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. — Lord Chesterfield

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living. — Millicent Fenwick

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere. — Terry Teachout