Grondslag Pensioen Quotes & Sayings

Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed. — Jeanette Winterson

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. — Frederick Lenz

Any resemblance to the names and characters of actual persons is entirely coincidental and unintended, unless you think otherwise. — K. Ceakou

I've always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it. — Harry Mathews

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner

I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch. — Octavia Spencer

Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. "Perhaps the answer lies in the democratic character of this institution," he said, setting himself to think his way through the matter. "Any ordinary man, on any day, can be raised to the lofty station of a guest. The path to that temporary deification is open to anybody at any time.[ ... ] Given that anyone at all can grasp the sceptre of the guest," he went on, "and since that sceptre, for every Albanian, surpasses even the king's sceptre, may we not assume that in the Albanian's life of danger and want, that to be a guest if only for four hours or twenty-four hours, is a kind of respite, a moment of oblivion, a truce, a reprieve, and - why not? - an escape from everyday life into some divine reality? — Ismail Kadare

According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we. — Leonard Peltier

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable. — Horace Greeley

Any conversation with Smith turned up at least one bit of human behavior which could not be justified logically, at least in terms that Smith could understand, and attempts to do so were endlessly time-consuming. — Robert A. Heinlein

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. — Chief Seattle

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America. — Mitt Romney

I am a football fan, yeah. — Joe Namath