Onpersoonlijke Quotes & Sayings

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear. — Oscar Wilde

God created me to love you. Let me heal the cracks in your heart. — Gail McHugh

Procrastination is another form of resistance — Louise Hay

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that. — Selena

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present. — Publilius Syrus

I feel conscious that I should find no reason to regret abandoning so pleasant a manner of life and such valuable privileges to become a wife of anyone. Beside, marriag is not in my opinion, so exceedingly desirable as some persons think. A woman's career is over when she marries. Once married, all is fixed - certainty takes the place of all her pleasant dreams. For her, no more hopes, no more doubts, no more suspense, no more possibility of anything better. She knows what she is and will be until death. For my part, I like to give free scope to my thoughts. — Klementyna Tanska Hoffmanowa

Much is expected from those to whom much is given. — C.S. Lewis

Procrustes, in Greek mythology, was the cruel owner of a small estate in Corydalus in Attica, on the way between Athens and Eleusis, where the mystery rites were performed. Procrustes had a peculiar sense of hospitality: he abducted travelers, provided them with a generous dinner, then invited them to spend the night in a rather special bed. He wanted the bed to fit the traveler to perfection. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off with a sharp hatchet; those who were too short were stretched (his name was said to be Damastes, or Polyphemon, but he was nicknamed Procrustes, which meant "the stretcher"). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and urge us to violence.: — Victoria Armour-Hileman

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. — Andrea Dworkin

All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory. — William Cowper Prime

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you. — Robin Sharma