Marjanne De Jong Quotes & Sayings

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me. — Dominique Fernandez

business is neither a burden to bear nor a battle to win, but a chance to outgrow fear by helping others outgrow theirs. This — Devdutt Pattanaik

It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.' — Robert G. Allen

The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself. — Ron Paul

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose. — Cinda Williams Chima

There's something simmering inside of me. Something I've never dared to tap into, something I'm afraid to acknowledge. There's a part of me clawing to break free from the cage I've trapped it in, banging on the doors of my heart, begging to be free. Begging to let go. Every day I feel like I'm reliving the same nightmare. I open my mouth to shout, to fight, to swing my fists, but my vocal cords are cut, my arms are heavy and weighted down as if trapped in wet cement and I'm screaming but no one can hear me, no one can reach me and I'm caught. And it's killing me. I've always had to make myself submissive, subservient, twisted into a pleading, passive mop just to make everyone else feel safe and comfortable. My existence has become a fight to prove I'm harmless, and I'm not a threat, that I'm capable of living among other human beings without hurting them. And I'm so tired I'm so tire I'm so tired I'm so tired and sometimes I get so angry. I don't know what's happening to me. — Tahereh Mafi

In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops. — Gordon S. Wood

No one laughs at God in a hospital, — Regina Spektor