Marieke Vervoort Quotes & Sayings

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. — Teresa Heinz

I am old enough now to know I know nothing — Amy Poehler

Pride, my friends, is the deadliest of fires. While other flames burn the surface, pride burns from within. It works its way from the heart until it consumes you. And like any fire, it will eat its prey until it is smothered or quenched. — Elizabeth Hunter

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship. — Van Jones

If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. — Ken Follett

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy — Gurcharan Das

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. — Julie Mehretu

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift. — Oprah Winfrey

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving. — Mark Leibovich

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it. — Eugene H. Peterson

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion. — Tom Upton