Margriet Eshuijs Quotes & Sayings

Life is all about allowing people choices to be who they want. But the majority of people choose to be worthless. — Tarryn Fisher

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us. — Jack Miller

Dickens was very practical and sensible. — Claire Tomalin

It is as if the Caru'ee were able to perceive an echo of the past, and unconsciously, as they built upon a palimpsest of books written long ago and long forgotten, chanced to stumble upon an essence of meaning that could not be lost, no matter how much time had passed. — Ken Liu

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way ... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was. — Walter Dean Myers

Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood ... by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing. — Anne Taylor Fleming

Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity. — Theodore Dalrymple

It's a mean world," she'd say. She was usually glad enough to be back. "There's nobody to take care of you out there. — Susanna Kaysen

That's the funny thing about cars and teenage boys. They never mean to hurt you when they crash, they just do. — John Goode