Marwijksoord Quotes & Sayings

One does not need a faith in God. Sufficient is a faith in created things, that enables one to move among objects in the conviction that they exist, persuaded of the irrefutable reality of this chair, this umbrella, this cigarette, this friendship. He who doubts himself is lost, just as someone scared of failure in love-making fails indeed. We are happy in the company of people who make us feel the unquestionable presence of the world, just as the body of the beloved gives us the certainty of those shoulders, that bosom, that curve of the hips, the surge of these as incontestable as the sea. And one who is in despair, we are taught by Singer, can act as though he believed: faith will come afterwards. — Claudio Magris

What I'm willing to admit is that my mind, as it serves my heart, becomes a very creative place, capable of surprising ingenuity and masterful reframes. And in this incredibly creative place, my world works for me, not against me. — Lori Cash Richards

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

It is the business of little minds to shrink. — Carl Sandburg

I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich. — Shelley Long

In silence, alone with his conscious, he asks himself perhaps, 'What is honour, and isn't the condemnation of bloodshed a prejudice? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men. — William Wilberforce

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea. — James Baldwin