Handen Vasthouden Quotes & Sayings

Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism. — Anton Chekhov

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

It took nearly a year to finish the ever-changing [marriage candidates] list, with the assistance of his sister and his aging spinster aunt, who lorded over their affairs as the self-appointed voice of cultivated reason. During this time, Gabriel struggled to convince straight-from-Oxford Tristan that he must marry, produce heirs, and maintain the family dukedom for Gabriel himself wouldn't marry. He knew he simply did not have the compulsion to inflict that sort of aggravation on a woman. — Olivia Parker

He walked close enough to hold hands and far enough away that words could never repair the damage we'd done to each other. — Elana Johnson

I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not ... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given. — Walter Mosley

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes. — Ice Cube

How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not — Sunday Adelaja

It was very like a dream. Like all dreamers, however, I could not let my dream alone. We poor humans are so anxious not to miss anything. — Agatha Christie

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, "Sorry," and stop doing it. Don't try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is really saying that labor is so difficult right now that nothing helps. You are the safest person for her to lash out at. Later, she will probably apologize. — Penny Simkin

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold. — Helen Keller

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year. — Eva Amurri

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful. — Thomas Aquinas

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't. — Ann Brashares