Kraaijvanger Quotes & Sayings

No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying. — Norma Gail

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. — Carrie Snow

They needed to believe they had a chance.
Even if they had none.
They needed to believe that love and faith would win the day.
Even if the day was already lost. — Nancy Holder

Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling — Sunday Adelaja

Hark ye yet again,--the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event--in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. — Herman Melville

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively. — Susan Winebrenner

A queen must knowthesufferings of her people. Suffering was theonlything theydid not lack. — Anonymous

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. — David Attenborough

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. — Douglas Brinkley

I am at war ... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. — Pam Gems

You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words, she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech. — Lauren Blakely

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running. — Bear Bryant

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that. — John Hopkins

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris — Veronica Roth