Koning Boudewijn Quotes & Sayings

It's a fact ... that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market' ... Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. — Michel Houellebecq

There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. — Calvin Coolidge

It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got — Ursula K. Le Guin

The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors. — Dalai Lama XIV

After all, one does not scream at lesbians in Doc Martens unless one wants to receive a penis kicking. — T.J. Klune

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. — Nick Hornby

Start from the beginning," Dylan says. "Tell me how you met. How he asked you out. Where he took you on the first date. Your first kiss. Tell me how he made you feel. Tell me how he loved you."
I sniff back my heartbreak and look up at him. "Why?"
"Because ... " he says, kissing the top of my head. "I plan on loving you like he did. — Jay McLean

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. — Maya Angelou

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned. — Jane Green