Jelle Martens Quotes & Sayings

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed ... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. — Anna Akhmatova

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images. — Rene Crevel

When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again
which is a loss. But to shield yourself
as I didn't do
seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in. — Richard Ford

42Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. — Anonymous

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom. — Edward Frenkel

Being in love is a strange thing. Even when you hate the person for saying or doing something, you don't stop loving them. You may want to or even go as far to say you won't, but when you love them, truly love them, it never goes away. — Shey Stahl

When fluoridated water was first introduced as a potential prevention against tooth decay, it was a natural product: calcium fluoride, to be exact. Now if there's fluoride in our water, it is sodium fluoride, which is literally a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry. — Amy Myers

Work is external to the worker ... It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself ... The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless. — Karl Marx

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right. — Billy Graham

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy. — Julia Sweeney