Keuzegids Quotes & Sayings

He was opposed to capital punishment - "institutionalized sadism," he termed it - and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society. — Gerald Clarke

When I started to live in simplicity my life became peaceful, joyful, and blissful. — Debasish Mridha

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven. — Edwin Land

But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We are a biological species arising from Earth's biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental process is the product of a brain shaped by the hammer of natural selection upon the anvil of nature. — Edward O. Wilson

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on. — Wally Schirra

Today, the word "sin" has lost its power — David Brooks

Don't worry be happy right now. — Ilya Bryzgalov

Dashrath spoke evenly, his voice reverberating even outside the royal tent. 'Rise, Ram Chandra, protector of the Raghu clan.' A — Amish Tripathi

it is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the life of an animal would be valued as highly as that of a person, and Saint Francis, who once petitioned the Holy Roman Emperor to scatter grain on fields on Christmas Day and give the crested larks a feast. — Mary Roach

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. — Richard Burton

When life shits on you, sometimes you have to be your own superhero. — S.C. Stephens

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person. — Alyson Stoner