Isidoor Van Quotes & Sayings

I felt amazingly confident, - it's not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass. — H.G.Wells

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. — Leo Buscaglia

There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. — James Wolcott

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft. — Scott Adsit

In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies. — Matt Blaze

I hate your future wife," she said simply.
"At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself. — Courtney Milan

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. — Geraldine Brooks

The name of God is identical with the Lord. — Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers. — Sam Kean

Of course, some people, when they're nervous or afraid, turn pedantic. And if you don't know what pedantic means, here's a clue: in the dictionary, I'm the illustration they use. — Michael Grant

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear. — Martha Beck

Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces. — Martin O'Malley

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits. — Niall Ferguson