Janneman Schoorsteenveger Quotes & Sayings

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it. — Jim Rohn

There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist. — Julie Kenner

There's only two kinds of music I don't like ... Country and Western. — Bobby Heenan

Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes ... and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. — Price Pritchett

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice. — Shonda Rhimes

Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's. — Jessie Burton

Voldemort's sitting in the Shrieking Shack?" said Hermione, outraged. "He's not--he's not even fighting?"
"He doesn't think he needs to fight," said Harry. "He thinks I'm going to go to him."
"But why?"
"He knows I'm after Horcuxes--he's keeping Nagini close beside him--obviously I'm going to have to go to him to get near the thing--"
"Right," said Ron, squaring his shoulders. "So you can't go, that's what he wants, what he's expecting. You stay here and look after Hermione, and I'll go and get it--"
Harry cut across Ron.
"You two stay here, I'll go under the Cloak and I'll be back as soon as I--"
"No," said Hermione, "it makes much more sense if I take the Cloak and--"
"Don't even think about it," Ron snarled at her.
Before Hermione could get farther than "Ron, I'm just as capable--" the tapestry at the top of the staircase on which they stood was ripped open. — J.K. Rowling

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away. — Will Ferrell

Your advice seems a little ironical."

"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it - that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way. — Thomas Henry Lister

I don't get called very often to play innocents. — Christopher Meloni

A few years later, Mendeleev, now famous, divorced his wife and wanted to remarry. Although the conservative local church said he had to wait seven years, he bribed a priest and got on with the nuptials. This technically made him a bigamist, but no one dared arrest him. When a local bureaucrat complained to the tsar about the double standard applied to the case- the priest was defrocked-the tsar primly replied, I admit, Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev. — Sam Kean

Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And she does take a form of revenge on both her father and her suitor: she refuses to give in to them. In the end, she has her triumph. — Azar Nafisi

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. — Terri Cheney