Havelaar Verpakkingen Quotes & Sayings

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand

I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn. — Peter Straub

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. — Alexander Pope

Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you. — Auliq Ice

The collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. — Malcolm X

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does. — Kamal Ravikant

I'm free now instead of the caged wraith I was then. I know how to embrace my dark side, but it won't consume me. I know where I'm going because of where I've been. — Lily Paradis

Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. — Charles Darwin

On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations! — Svetlana Alliluyeva

Huh," groaned Father Gabe. "I sympathize with you, Tommy. Relationships can be a crap shoot. You think you're going to roll a seven and up pops snake eyes. — Robert Hobkirk

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. — W. Bruce Cameron

It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murders, unbridled violence, crowded prisons, torture chambers, the hunger and the illness of millions of people and he unnamable misery of a major part of the human race is safely kept outside the solitude of our hearts, our contrition remains no more than a pious emotion. — Henri J.M. Nouwen