Netherlands Famous Quotes & Sayings

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. — Robert Trout

Most choices are driven by immediate results. — Phil McGraw

If you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere — Stephen King

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me. — Arlo Guthrie

If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul — Orhan Pamuk

Day after day she asked Papa with quivering lip: "Mayn't I get up and go down stairs this morning?" And — Susan Coolidge

Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.) — Elizabeth Kolbert

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer

I remembered the verses and recited them slowly, with a pleasure that I had not felt before. I heard them as a soft whisper, harmless, without dark overtones:
Bareheaded and barefoot, Shahin the acrobat
stepped onto the tightrope, over which
the breeze alone passes without fear.
Shahin, the falcon, feared no danger,
asked for God's help and crossed over to the other bank.
And the little falcons, his apprentices,
passed over the chasm.
Above the water, on which the sun glistened,
they looked like pearls
strung on a thin thread.
The deep gorge beneath them,
the distant heavens above them.
And they on the unsteady tightrope,
on the dangerous path of life. — Mesa Selimovic

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. — Abraham Lincoln

All people are a single nation. — Aly Khan

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect. — Sue Grafton

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it ... but those who do will become well. — Vernon Howard

Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality. — Hina Hashmi