Grootmoeder Quotes & Sayings

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. — Elliott Abrams

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it. — Ernest Hemingway,

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words. — Peter Garrett

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat. — Joseph Heller

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them. — Jim Butcher

Saying you don't need a librarian because you have the internet is like saying you don't need a math teacher because you have a calculator. — Unknown

I love you," said Bekka.

"I know," I said.

"I know you know," she said. "But I didn't know that you knew I knew you knew. And now I do. — Scott Alexander

1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'. — Paul Strathern

Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it. — Johan Santana

The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant. — Andrew Rosenthal