Herinneringen Quotes & Sayings

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics. — Stephen Jay Gould

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. — Mignon McLaughlin

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. — Annabel Pitcher

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Frivolous Gossip and Poetry
It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;
what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.
Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers. — Beryl Dov

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. — Camille Paglia

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. — Hope Solo

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood. — Sarah Addison Allen

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well. — Ralph Marston

Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. — Zora Neale Hurston

[ ... ]you know what they say about messengers, right"?
Excuse me?"
Too much bad news will get you shot."[ ... ] — J.R. Ward

In Tokyo he longed to return to his hometown as soon as he could, even if only for a short time, to see his friends again. At that point Nagoya was the place he needed to go back to. He shuttled back and forth between two different places for a little over a year. But then, without warning, the cycle was broken.
After this, he no longer had a place to go, or a place to which he could return. — Haruki Murakami

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. — Walter Savage Landor

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes. — John Adams