Negatieve Eigenschappen Quotes & Sayings

It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out. — Melissa De La Cruz

She is laughing up her sleeve at you. — Moliere

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. — Frank Cottrell Boyce

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too. — Stephenie Meyer

When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh. — John Edward Williams

Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself. — Bobby Lee

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. — Charles Darwin

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: [T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up. — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed ... We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age. — Gordon Brown

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: "Yes, of course." Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself. — Paco Ignacio Taibo II

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi

Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.. — Vladimir Nabokov

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being. — Keith L. Moore