Maanden In Frans Quotes & Sayings

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. — Ken Keyes Jr.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do. — Chris Isaak

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William Ewart Gladstone

We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world. — Bonnie L. Oscarson

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish? — Victor Hugo

Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?"
"A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said. — George R R Martin

His own children were not members of the Clemson incoming freshman class, but two of his nieces and a nephew were. On the news, he outlined his problems with the summer-reading committee's selection. The book talks in graphic terms about pornography, about fetish, about masturbation, about multiple sex partners . . . The book contains a very extensive list of over-the-top sexual and antireligious references. The explicit message that this sends to students is that they are encouraged to find themselves sexually. — Ann Patchett

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance? — John Grier Hibben

The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want him to reach out to me, but I know he can't. He can't for all the same reasons I can't. It hurts too much. It's like an alcoholic taking a sip of wine; the pleasure of the indulgence would be immediate and swift, but the aftermath would be devastating. — Elizabeth Finn

Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes
even those buried deeply in the hearts of the dead. — Wendy Webb

Stephen ... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive? — Bryan Lee O'Malley