Jongerenwelzijn Quotes & Sayings

Literary history and the present are dark with silences ... I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences
what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)
that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. — Tillie Olsen

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,' — Geraldine Ferraro

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. — Amanda Lindhout

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities. — Thomas Aquinas

Oh what a long time we shall not be and the world will endure,
Neither name nor sign of us will exist;
Before this we were not and there was no deficiency,
After this, when we are not it will be the same as before. — Omar Khayyam

A backward glance can often lift the heart. — Dante Alighieri

Love forgives and keeps no records of wrongs . — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child) — Julia Child