Janneke Williamson Quotes & Sayings

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad. — Steve Carell

His every syllable flirted. — John Green

Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms. — Marcia Angell

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty. — Naomi Novik

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. — Daniel B. Shapiro

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe. — Stephenie Meyer

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is. — Sabrina Lloyd

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it. — Rainbow Rowell

I imagine the dead are exhausted by our refusal to live, to say the story straight, as they push eons of unspoken against our recalcitrant mouths. For us to do the small courtesy of naming, therefore seeing. But what is there left to be afraid of? Everything's happened to us already. What happens again is only an echo. — Christina Olivares

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would. — Ami McKay

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands. — Andrew Bird

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision. — Bertrand Russell

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. — Roger Daltrey

Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was there any need to calculate the number of forms which the atoms of the Universe could create
burning at the stake all those who said their number was not finite
when it sufficed to meditate for years on one of these marine objects to realize how the deviation of a single atom, whether willed by God or prompted by Chance, could generate inconceivable Milky Ways? — Umberto Eco