Jetteke Frijda Quotes & Sayings

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. — Chinua Achebe

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? — Samuel Laman Blanchard

Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man. — Erich Fromm

Yes, according to the way he wrote that sentence, he turned invisible for one line. No, he won't let me change it. — Brandon Sanderson

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. — Keith Stanfield

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. — Jim Harrison

I imagine he's married. Or was ... He seems damaged in the way that only we women can damage men. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud. — Marya Hornbacher

Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale. — George W. Bush

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau

The necessity of saying something, the perplexity of having nothing to say, and a desire of being witty, are three circumstances which alone are capable of making even the greatest writer ridiculous. — Voltaire

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. — Ikkyu