Korporaal In Het Quotes & Sayings

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible. — Azar Nafisi

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. — Criss Jami

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected. — Randy Newman

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. — Robert Frost

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me. — Marcel Marceau

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour. — Ethel Percy Andrus

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture. — Stefan Zweig

My unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket — Teri Garey

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation. — W. Somerset Maugham

But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast. — Alastair Reynolds

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being. — Frederick Lenz

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination ... — Kate Morton

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it. — Theodor Adorno

She never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her. — Ann Brashares

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it. — Kirstie Alley