Kostermans Quotes & Sayings

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone. — Thomas Paine

fortune favors action. — Sophia Amoruso

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. — George Will

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes. (Jugurthine War 86.3) — Sallust

If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease. — Henry Vaughan

As a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to find a way to get to it. — Tyrone Willingham

Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water. — Dante Alighieri

Life is Heaven until unless we make it Hell — Myself

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general. — Marcus Samuelsson

The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means 'soul,' is also the root of the word 'animal.') Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children, though the children themselves don't think of it as a belief. It is, to them, one of the most obvious features of the world around them, and the most obvious way of interpreting what goes on in that world. — Linda Bender

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong. — Trey Gowdy

O soul, thou pleasest me - I thee;
Sailing these seas, or on the hills, or waking in the night,
Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time, and Space, and Death, like waters flowing,
Bear me, indeed, as through the regions infinite,
Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear - lave me all over;
Bathe me, O God, in thee - mounting to thee,
I and my soul to range in range of thee.
O Thou transcendent,
Nameless, the fibre and the breath.



from "Passage to India — Walt Whitman

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. — Thomas Wolfe

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. — Pablo Casals