Ontdekkingtroef Quotes & Sayings

Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts. — Tom Baker

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important ... It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun. — William James

Theater helps people keep sane. — Vanessa Redgrave

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind. — Peter Levitt

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel De Montaigne

I could not take my eyes off her. It was as if she were performing some trick, some sort of unfolding. There was something raw and exposed about her, as if many things had already happened between us, as if time had leapt ahead and we were already lovers. — Lily King

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.
Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938 — C. G. Jung

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields

dark, wet sides of the well dropped maybe — Jane Smiley

You're my best friend,
You're my love,
You're my life.
I can't wait to
make you
my wife!
Love, Ryan — Tina Reber

I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely I can see the stripes of gold alternating with the green in his eyes like spokes of a wheel.
I shake my head.
"That's a good thing." He's still staring at me like that, like he's the first and last person who will ever stare at me.
"Because ... " His voice trails off, and his eyes travel slowly down to my lips, and there's so much heat roaring through
my body I swear I'm going to pass out.
"Because?" I prompt him, surprised I can still speak.
"Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now. — Lauren Oliver

I have gazed so much on beauty
that my eyes overflow with it. — Constantine P. Cavafy

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. — Peter Landesman

You have complete permission to enter my mind, probing all my thoughts, looking for whatever you need to know. There is nothing I intend to hide from you. No matter what you will find, either luminous or dark, you can rest assured that in my heart I deeply love you and I want the best for you, and ... I do mean you! — Franco Santoro