Leenders Haardkachels Quotes & Sayings

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? — C.S. Lewis

[Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them. — Paul Lockhart

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. — Pierre Corneille

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.' — Tony Kushner

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. — Marc Jacobs

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. — Georgia Harkness

Dogs are obsessed with being happy. — James Thurber

had a natural explanation. Your husband is away on — Denise Rudberg

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is. — Jesse Ventura

I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly. — Phil Gramm

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while. — Seth Grahame-Smith

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. — George W. Bush

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment ... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind. — Dennis Prager

To attempt to write about Dun Aengus and bring some sort of freshness to it is rather like trying to perform a similar service for Stonehenge: so many people have attempted it before that one is tempted to give up what one is looking at is not only one of the wonders of Ireland, but of the entire Western world. — Eric Newby

Rather than react to the present, learning organizations seek to create their future. — Dantar P. Oosterwal