Martelaar Quotes & Sayings

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth. — Aristotle.

The first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born. — Margot Fonteyn

The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated by landed and precapitalist forms of production.
Constructing industrialism and mechanising things is supposedly the same as building socialism whenever central and "national" plans are made. This is the mistaken thesis. — Amadeo Bordiga

You're beautiful and charming, and I can't stop thinking about last night." No, he
didn't say that. Not exactly, anyway. What Sarah heard was, "Hey - how are you? — Nicholas Sparks

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. — W.S. Gilbert

When people fight about something, the subject of the argument is rarely the real issue. The real issue is about vulnerability, connectedness, safety, trust or love - which are all emotional states. — Shawn Kent Hayashi

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated. — Jason Wu

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts. — Virginia Frances Schwartz

I got to know her well, and we talked about all sorts of things. We understood each other. You could even say I loved her. — Haruki Murakami

there is no planet B. — Anonymous

[James] Joyce ... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized ... — Tom Stoppard

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice ... You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day
that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave. — Larry McMurtry