Nag Lekker Slaap Quotes & Sayings

If a plague carried off the members of a society all at once, it is obvious that the group would be permanently done for. Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. But the graded difference in age, the fact that some are born as some die, makes possible through transmission of ideas and practices the constant reweaving of the social fabric. Yet this renewal is not automatic. Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. — John Dewey

He could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by — Kevin Henkes

I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours. — Alicia Keys

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag,
would be during the process of folding it,
so to be used as a napkin later,
at our victory dinner. — Tom Althouse

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. — Tom Robbins

It wasn't his job to make things suffer - he was just here to win battles. Whatever it took. — Anonymous

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way. — Lyall Watson

What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. — Cormac McCarthy

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable
that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself,
that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as
well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor
memory; and then all of a sudden they stop. — Michel Houellebecq

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. — Albert Kesselring

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius