Konijnenberg Quotes & Sayings

Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty. — Jeff Cohen

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky rooms somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to fact the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. — Terry Pratchett

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have. — Leo Tolstoy

Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively! — Andrzej Sapkowski

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating. — Melanie Benjamin

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. — Nicolas Cage

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. — Ellen G. White

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it. — Kevin Whately

You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way. — Catherynne M Valente

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of ... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor. — David Suzuki

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception. — Gustave Flaubert

I can't today," I said. "Maybe tomorrow?"
"Can't tomorrow," said Quinn. "I have a family thing. I guess we're logistically star-crossed, Juliet."
Sometimes Quinn calls me Juliet because of how we had to do that scene together, and whenever he does it's good for another bout of brain paralysis. So all I could manage back was "Oh."
"But I'll talk to you later, okay?" he said.
I didn't even try to say anything else but just nodded, wondering as I did what would happen next. The steps had largely emptied by then.
But before I could do much wondering, Quinn's lips were on mine.
And this time it definitely counted. — Jennifer Sturman

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us. — Nelson Rodrigues