Niet Opgeven Quotes & Sayings

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance. — Meghan Daum

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl. — Whitney Cummings

Botox to me is not surgery. — Kim Kardashian

London is not a city, London is a person. Tower Bridge talks to you; National Gallery reads a poem for you; Hyde Park dances with you; Palace of Westminster plays the piano; Big Ben and St Paul's Cathedral sing an opera! London is not a city; it is a talented artist who is ready to contact with you directly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Either we're all ordinary, or else none of us is ordinary. — Carol Shields

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question. — C.S. Lewis

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. — Marge Piercy

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell! — Brigham Young

I was endeavouring to adjust the faculties, which were in urgent need of a bit of first-aid treatment. — P.G. Wodehouse

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids. — Molly O'Keefe

We may ... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth ... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything. — Thomas Kuhn

I spent nine years trying not to have any expressions, trying to be my sister. Now I can't smile, not even if I want to. — Otsuichi