Overblijvende Quotes & Sayings

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative. — Calvin Coolidge

Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly. — Sanober Khan

Delighted of course. It will only be a very scratch meal - just the sandwich crusts and broken meringue-shells and what's left over. Yes, isn't it a perfect morning? — Katherine Mansfield

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards. — Brittany Snow

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there. — Chevy Chase

And simple truth miscalled simplicity — William Shakespeare

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up. — Sevyn Streeter

It was hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl. — Libba Bray

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was ... crazy. — Phil Elvrum

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. — Barry Gehm

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it. — Carl Joachim Friedrich

Like a tightrope walker who has forgotten how to put one foot in front of the other, all I felt was the swaying of the precarious structure on which I stood, stricken with Terror at the realization that the ends of the balancing pole gleaming far out on the edges of my field of vision were no longer my guiding lights, as before, but malignant enticements to me to cast myself into the depths. — W.G. Sebald

We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality. — Frederick Lenz