Noorden Van Quotes & Sayings

Redefine normal. None of us know the full measure of our power until we start pushing our boundaries and pressing our luck, and the more we do, the less we care what others think. The freedom feels too good. — Penelope Douglas

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture. — Felix Dennis

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself. — Betsey Johnson

It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose - well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes - make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible. — Aldous Huxley

Religion is god's population-control tool — Siddharth Katragadda

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems. — Ronald Kessler

The art of war is the art of deception. — Sun Tzu

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth. — John Playfair

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality. — David Bronstein

This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He'd reminded her of an eagle, the Castellan of Amyth — Michelle Frost

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. — Bill Bryson

An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now. — R.L. Prendergast