Meesteres Nederland Quotes & Sayings

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift. — Jean Vanier

I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world. — Don Winslow

We have to have a warrior mindset and be engaged at all times. If we are going to move mountains, we cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time. — Sandra M. Michelle

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? — Nikita Khrushchev

I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness. — Lysa TerKeurst

I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator. — Jan Potocki

Any country that is not careful can be seized. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate. — Elizabeth Scott

And it's yellow. The way pale yellow should look, like sunshine and butter, mixed with hope and cream. — Katherine Reay

It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it. — Akshay Bakaya

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry. — Paul Valery

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back. — John Cusack

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it. — Paul Dickson

Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns! — Pat Buchanan