Onzelfstandige Quotes & Sayings

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade. — Albert Camus

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams

Beaumont. Tyler. Grady."
"Wait, whoa, full names? What the hell, Garrett? — Abigail Roux

The man was heavy with life. So often it's lightness that we admire. Those people who appear weightless and unburdened, who hover instead of walk, attract us with their defiance of ordinary gravity. Their carelessness mimics happiness, but Bill had none of that. — Siri Hustvedt

It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his own institutions; we have to do with a God who is wise to prescribe his own worship, just to require what he has prescribed, and powerful to revenge what he has not prescribed. — Matthew Henry

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. — Alexander Pope

To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind. — Adam Smith