Overtuigingen Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I'm just going to put you inside one with somebody who knows how, and send you off on a ride. — Kameron Hurley

The more clearly you become conscious of the frailty, vanity and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident, just as you perceive the speed at which a ship is going only when looking at the motionless shore, not when looking into the ship itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only the failure of my plots I fear. — Shulamith Firestone

Even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gore is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. (pg 465) — Herman Melville

When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it. — Jerome A. Miller

Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it. — Rufi Thorpe

An interpretation of Jesus' nature, identity, or role; for example, the Quran has a lower Christology than John, since he is just human in the former yet divine in the latter. — Nabeel Qureshi

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough. — Cassandra Clare

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. — Paddy Ashdown

Your mother is a shifty knitter. — Marion Jensen

Eternity is like God looking into a mirror. — Evans Biya

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. — Robert Orben

[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances. — Jonathan Capehart

Betsy's arm shot out, and my cheek suddenly stung. "What the hell?" I said, trying to figure out what had happened. A cherry-red jellybean was in my lap. I held it up. "Every time you tense up, every time you turn that handsome face into an undertaker's mask, I am going to hit you with a jellybean," Betsy explained, as if the whole thing were quite reasonable. — Gillian Flynn

(For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.) — Peter Kreeft