Kluwer Opleidingen Quotes & Sayings

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. — Rick Warren

Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values. — Douglas Rushkoff

There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents ... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened package of chocolate double-stuffed Oreos. — Mark W. Boyer

The river was behind him. The wind was full of acid. In the slow float of light I looked away, down at the river. On the brink of freezing, it gleamed in large, bulging blisters. The water, where it still moved, was black and braided. And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes days, for the surface of a river to freeze over - to hold in its skin the perfect and crystalline world - and how that world could be shattered by a small stone dropped like a single syllable. — Nam Le

If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor, — Carl Sagan

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood. — Nia Long

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about ... what kind of breakfast cereal you like. — Josh Homme

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony. — Pope Benedict XVI

Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained — Stuart Wilde