Nederlanders Quotes & Sayings

Philosophically, you can believe anything, so long as you do not claim it to be true. Morally, you can practice anything, so long as you do not claim that it is a "better" way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from the eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century. — Ravi Zacharias

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000. — Kenneth Fisher

Well, I suppose we must be going on again,' he said. 'I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over, and in vain.' He stood up. 'It's dark, and we cannot use the Lady's glass. Keep it safe for me, Sam. I have nowhere to keep it now, except in my hand, and I shall need both hands in the blind night. But Sting I give to you. I have got an orc-blade, but I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe. — J.R. Ward

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies

You want the girl next door? Go next door! — Marisha Pessl

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language. — Elliot W. Eisner

One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. — Jimmy Page

Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us. — Victor Hugo

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same. — Bo Schembechler

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. — Brene Brown

It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man's troubles to his heart. — Mario Puzo

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently. — Bill Bowerman