Organisatie Quotes & Sayings

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage. — Robert Musil

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father. — Andre Braugher

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane. — Philip Jose Farmer

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub

Could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe. — Sidney Hook

As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake crumb might cause. Passover dishes are probably the most interesting of any in the Jewish cuisine because of the lack of leaven and the resulting challenge to fine cooks ... Everything is doubly rich, as if to compensate for the lack of leaven ... [W]oes are forgotten in the pleasures of the table, for if the Mosaic laws are rightly followed, no man need fear true poison in his belly, but only the results of his own gluttony. — M.F.K. Fisher

What Are the Odds? Here's an astonishing fact: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become president, both died on July 4, 1826. — Kendra Hazlett Armstrong