Maerlant Den Quotes & Sayings

My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes. — Pamela Anderson

Strange how mean words can return to ones thoughts, years after they've been callously thrown at you. They replay in your mind, spiking a sense of remembered pain. Nasty name calling can be an ugly memory that stabs unexpectedly - not unlike a nightmare where you wake up crying.
Sticks and stones, may break your bones - yet, cruel names can hurt you. — Nikki Sex

You couldn't hide that friendly giant from somebody rimming your butthole. — Victor J. Banis

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. — Isaac Newton

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J.I. Packer

Who can believe in illusion even if we all live the Illusion of Life? — Sorin Cerin

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. — Wilhelm, Ostwald

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest
it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [ ... ] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something
for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder. — Aldous Huxley

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems. — Warren Mundine

I knew about the terrorism of the human spirit and understood that ruthless, immoral forces had planted alien flags in my soul. The plebe system gave cruelty a good name, disguised sadism in the severe raiment of duty. — Pat Conroy

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. — Bjorn Lomborg

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution. — Tim DeChristopher

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic. — Richard North Patterson