Guido Het Eiland Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She — Robyn Carr

And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted. — Jessica Soffer

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. — H. Beam Piper

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. — Barack Obama

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are. — Sarah Dessen

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book — Eric Carle

Adult stories never made sense, and they were so slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? — Neil Gaiman

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me. — Matthew McConaughey

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. — John Adams

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. — Peter L. Berger

As long as I was tortured by love for him, I wanted him to be just as miserable as I was. — Laura Elizabeth Woollett

You might think that's selfish of me - and maybe it is - but I am a trained psychologist. No matter how depressed someone is, no matter how deep or unrelenting their pain may seem to be, there's always more to the picture. Situations change. Things get better. The human mind, no matter how stressed, still retains a capacity for joy. — D.D. Barant

Three years earlier her father had been buried (irritable and impatient as he always had been) in the Fladstrand Church cemetery that bordered the lovely park, Plantagen, which shared with the cemetery its trees, shared its beech and ash and maple, in the same plot where her mother, wide eyed and confused, had lain down almost willingly two years before, where her brother had lain for thirty-five years, dazed and unwillingly after too short a life.
A dove was looking down from atop the family gravestone. It was made from metal so it could not fly away, but sometimes it went missing all the same and only a spike would remain. Someone had taken that dove, someone out there maybe had an entire collection of doves and angels and other small, Christian bronze sculptures in a cupboard at home and on long evenings would close the curtains and take them out and run his fingers gently over the smooth, cold bodies. — Per Petterson

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention ... — Herbert A. Simon