Laurentien Brinkhorst Quotes & Sayings

She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was. — Maya Banks

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants. — Selena Gomez

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. — Nate Silver

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty. — Jerry Yang

There are, for all of us, the things we tell everyone, the things we tell just a few people, the things we tell only loved ones (and perhaps therapists), and the things we tell only ourselves. And then, of course, there are the things we do not even admit to ourselves: — Jonathan Biss

How alone this was going to be. — Joyce Carol Oates

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four — Albert Camus

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. — John Lewis Gaddis

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. — Max Weber

I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe? — Thomas Pynchon