Immortalised Amsterdam Quotes & Sayings

Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now - " "Betrayer of Hope. — Robert Jordan

What kind of house will these dreamers become? What will it be like to live among people who don't fidget in fear of what's around the next bend? What kind of melodies will they compose?

He guessed that they would make strange company. Mysterious. Aggressively curious. Scary. Ignoring urgent concerns, distracted by insects and clouds and children. Each would live with one foot planted in another world. No more worry about their reputation. No more sugarcoated persuasion. No more flourishes designed to solicit a shower of coins. Only riddles and play and prophecy. — Jeffrey Overstreet

In doubt if an action is just, abstain. — Zoroaster

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don't always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person's debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart. — Henry Cloud

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better. — Atul Gawande

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them. — Kin Hubbard

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? — Ann Landers

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed. — William Katt

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act. — Rob Bell