Jasja Barendsen Quotes & Sayings

How much did you get for your soul? — Chrissie Hynde

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures. — Grant Heslov

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. — Nathalie Sarraute

Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back. — Snoop Dogg

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance"). — Tom Bethell

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. — Eugene H. Peterson

Only a lunatic would fail to distinguish between himself and his representative self. This banal distinction may be most obvious in the workplace, where invariably one must avail oneself of an even-tempered, abnormally industrious dummy stand-in who, precisely because it is a dummy, makes life easier for all the others, who are themselves present, which is to say, represented, by dummies of their own. — Joseph O'Neill

How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I'm tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before. — Pierce Brown

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized. — Annie Dillard

appraisal was evident in his glance. "Well, then," he said, "let's hear about — Erle Stanley Gardner

Faith, girl, faith. At the end of the day, that's all we have." Charlotte rested her cheek against her — Rachel Hauck

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow — William Shakespeare

And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also. — Marcus Aurelius

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not. — Anne Heche