Huis Gekocht Quotes & Sayings

Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world. — Brenna Yovanoff

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category. — Jillian Medoff

In London they don't like you if you're still alive. — Harvey Fierstein

For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are. — Chael Sonnen

West looks up. 'This is the best time to hunt, when the animals are out looking for their suppers. 'Course, with a painted sky, light's not always good.' I never heard someone call the sky painted before, but it's the perfect word. Clouds outlined in gold streak across the firmament, casting uneven shadows over the landscape. — Stacey Lee

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. — Robert P. Murphy

Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into the wicker bin, then paused for a few seconds, finding a little place of stillness before starting to draw the flowers. Art didn't count at school because it didn't get you into law or banking or medicine. It was just a fluffy thing stuck to the side of Design and Technology, a free A level for kids who could do it, like a second language, but she loved charcoal and really good gouache, she loved rolling sticky black ink on to a lino plate and heaving on the big black arm of the Cope press, the quiet and those big white walls. — Mark Haddon

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. — Nick Harkaway

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. — Curt Schilling

Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, "We want it now, in our lifetime. " We want to see apartheid in South Africa come down right now. We want to see the war in Central America stop right now. We want the CIA off our campus right now. We want an end to sexual harassment in our communities right now. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now. — Abbie Hoffman

A hint of a frown touched his mouth. "I told you that wasn't about feeding." "No, it was about you making your point." I skewered a bite and chewed. "Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A? — Jeaniene Frost

When we use love to lighten the burdens of others, life mysteriously enlightens our paths and lightens our burdens too. — Debasish Mridha