Herdenkingsdag Quotes & Sayings

Natasha was gay because she had been sad too long and now nothing reminded her of the cause of her sadness, and because she was feeling well. She was also happy because she had someone to adore her: the adoration of others was a lubricant the wheels of her machine needed to make them run freely - and Petya adored her. Above — Leo Tolstoy

Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to equalize the inequities our society creates, and to offer not just equal educational opportunities, but equal educational outcomes to all children. — Christopher Danielson

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. — Thomas A Kempis

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility. — Sarah Paulson

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. — Don DeLillo

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding. — Gavin Hood

My hair has always grown in all directions and my teeth too and my beard. My nerves and my soul must surely grow in the same way. That is what makes me incomprehensible to those who grow all in one direction and are incapable of imagining a hay-stack. It is this that baffles those who could rid me of this legendary leprosy. They do not know how to take me.
This organic disorder is a safeguard for me because it keeps the thoughtless at distance. I also get certain advantages from it. It gives me diversity, contrast, a quickness in leaning to one side or the other as this or that object invites me, and in regaining my balance. — Jean Cocteau

The earth is parched and cracked. Men and women come together like broods of vultures over a stinking carcass, to mate and fly apart again. Vultures who drop from the clouds like heavy stones. Talons and beak, that's what we are! A huge intestinal apparatus with a nose for dead meat. Forward! Forward without pity, without compassion, without love, without forgiveness. Ask no quarter and give none! More battleships, more poison gas, more high explosives! More gonococci! More streptococci! More bombing machines! More and more of it
until the whole fucking works is blown to smithereens, and the earth with it! — Henry Miller

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. — Nelson Mandela

He looks at me, not like he's waiting for an explanation, but like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. — Veronica Roth

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. — Ryan Murphy

I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case. — Christine Keeler

Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point. — J.D. Robb