Leeuwarden Postcode Quotes & Sayings

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea. — Henry David Thoreau

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important. — Dennis Eckersley

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities. — Paul Di Filippo

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. — Barney Oliver

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. — Brad Alan Lewis

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time. — Janet Morris

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why? — Robert Wright

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey

I felt all the blood rush from my head and collect itself in my stomach. I had to sit down. — Brian Paone

... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live. — V.S. Naipaul

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind. — Samuel Johnson

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. — Alain De Botton

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river. — Pat Conroy

they might last another year or two, — Larry McMurtry

He was the perfect friend, except for the part where he wanted my dick. But I could look past that. — Linda Kage