Muisje Tekenen Quotes & Sayings

A soldier must be like a bullet, constantly ready to be fired.' I learnt that by heart. You go to war in order to kill. Killing is my profession - that's what I was trained to do. — Svetlana Alexievich

I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf. — Rex Stout

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. — Jamie Wyeth

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. — Anne Edwards

Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche. — Dan Santos

I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails. — Benjamin Watson

My dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions. — Melina Marchetta

My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished. — Diane Setterfield

I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones. — Lyndsay Faye

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself. — Philo

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself. — H.L. Mencken

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. — Francois Rabelais

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.' Then you will see the beginnings of civilization. — Noam Chomsky