Lieveke Engleking Quotes & Sayings

An odd place to meet - " To Harry's immense disquiet, Snape's black eyes flicked to the doorways on either side of them, and then to the one-eyed witch. "We're not - meeting here," said Harry. "We just - met here." "Indeed?" said Snape. "You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason. ... I suggest the pair of you return to Gryffindor Tower, where you belong. — J.K. Rowling

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale ... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally. — Wendell Berry

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys — Friedrich Nietzsche

You can never heal completely. The scars will always stay behind, just to remind how cruel the time was once to you. But someday, you will learn to see beauty in the world that gave you these scars. And your eyes will shine with no lies in it. That day, you become beautiful. With baring all the scars, Which you always tried to hide from everyone. — Akshay Vasu

But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial measures - trances in which the most galling memories, events that seem likely to cripple life for ever, are brushed with a dark wing which rubs their harshness off and gilds them, even the ugliest, and basest, with a lustre, an incandescence? Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? And then what strange powers are these that penetrate our most secret ways and change our most treasured possessions without our willing it? Had Orlando, worn out by the extremity of his suffering, died for a week, and then come to life again? And if so, of what nature is death and of what nature life? — Virginia Woolf

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written. — Tadeusz Konwicki

People say:
'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood. — Ernst F. Schumacher

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others. — Robert Jordan

Everything seemed so unreal - so supernatural - and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren't human. We never were. (Jessica) — Shannon A. Thompson

Self-leadership always precedes team leadership. — Michael Hyatt

I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible ... I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day. — Perez Hilton

A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan