Leeuwarden Lane Quotes & Sayings

Why within limits? You apparently consider levitation impossible, but wouldn't you have considered wireless impossible if you had been living fifty years ago and somebody had endeavoured to convince you of it? — Dennis Wheatley

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Create a story of WOW that will be retold. — Jeffrey Gitomer

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia. — Amanda Palmer

Her pain was too much to bear. Fighting back my own tears, I wanted to pull away from her, but I stayed to endure the anguish I had caused her. It was only fair. — Ashlan Thomas

I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life. — Ivo Andric

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock. — Connie Willis

By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal

The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that women and girls do not have half of the adventures, that they're not as important. We're teaching kids that girls and women don't take up half the space in the world. — Geena Davis

The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur. — Red Adair

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner. — Gail Collins

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda? — Moby

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks. — Jane Yolen

Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention. — Laura Wiess

You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin. — Victoria Aveyard