Maurik Van Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are. — Khloe Kardashian

Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity. — Pratibha Patil

It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends were untrustworthy, it's just that I would never discuss something that was hardly real as though it were really real. Often people do this, forcing friends into authenticating an imaginary life. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. — Michael Gove

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation. — Jane Ripley

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive. — Caitriona Balfe

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception. — John Le Carre

He's the boy who stopped and I'm the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away? — Courtney Summers

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all. — Elisabeth Elliot

The guest list, if there had been one, was a little like a census. — John Steinbeck

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. — Camille Paglia

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy. — James Hilton

Connor barely blinks before he says, "Normally I wouldn't even waste words on someone who I find parochial and meaningless, but maybe I pity you just enough to say this: in the next two centuries, my wife and I will still exist. We will live beyond you through minds and words and hearts. If that makes you feel weak and insignificant, then maybe you should reevaluate your own stance in the world - and not attempt to beat at mine with two flailing hands. — Krista Ritchie

I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun! — Elle King