Non Fictie Quotes & Sayings

I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?"
"A long time ago."
"That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life ... my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win ... " She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen. — Simone Elkeles

-I thought you were dead.
-I was, a bit. — Jennifer Bosworth

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world. — Simon Sinek

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. — Plato

Only inexperienced demon looks horrific to mankind. — Toba Beta

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house. — Shelley Berkley

Don't listen to experts. — James Dyson

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. — Kristin Scott Thomas

You have to want it, want it so bad you will never give up, so bad that you are ready to sacrifice time, money, sleep, friendships, even your reputation," he writes. "You will have to adopt a particular lifestyle of ambition, not just for a few weeks or months but for years and years and years. You have to want it so bad that you are not only ready to fail, but you actually want to experience failure: revel in it, learn from it. — David Shenk

You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead. — Lionel Shriver

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. — Marcus Aurelius

Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. — Barbara Oakley

The human mind's capacity to persuade itself of things it wants to believe is damn near limitless. — Greta Christina

I hadn't showered
for days, Jack hadn't stopped crying in as many, and I was wondering
what the return policy was on an infant. — Jane Buckingham

In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity. — George Orwell