Overschot Engels Quotes & Sayings

Malice is rare. Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. From boyhood I have dwelt on foreign soil and I know with what grief sometimes the mind takes leave of the narrow hearth of a peasant's hut, and I know too how frankly it afterwards disdains marble firesides and panelled halls. — Hugh Of Saint-Victor

I don't miss 'EastEnders.' I did a two-stretch. That was enough. — Phil Daniels

It makes me sad that grown up books don't have pictures in them. You're brought up with them when you're younger, and then suddenly they're all taken away. — Jen Campbell

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens. — Rick Springfield

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow. — Rachel Naomi Remen

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. — Alan Bennett

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems. — Heather Brewer