Penninckx Rijmenam Quotes & Sayings

Each moss,
Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which Nature's self would rue. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. — Stopford Brooke

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me. — Patrice O'Neal

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing. — John Steinbeck

How does the new leg feel?' I don't point out their question misses a point: even this new leg doesn't feel. — Padma Venkatraman

I love you, Nathan Douglas Weller. — Julie Ann Walker

One of the teens I worked with told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone is occupying their own space. — Laurie A. Helgoe

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds, — Robert Downey Jr.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

John Kenneth Galbraith said: Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power. — Simone Weil

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. — Annie Besant