Plaindre Vervoegen Quotes & Sayings

Men do not die on mornings like this:
whatever happens then happens in their name,
like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory. — Michael Hogan

The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies — Mary Fulbrook

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much. — Tana French

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic. — Seth Adam Smith

it was about tragedy transformed over the years into joy. It was about the beauty of sheer effort. I — Anne Lamott

All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates. — Bernardino Ramazzini

And then you grew up, went to school, and began to 'philosophize,' didn't you? We all go through the same thing. It seems that during adolescence a person's inner life is suddenly weakened, stripped of its natural courage. In his thinking he no longer dares stand face to face with reality or mystery; he begins to see them through the opinions of 'grown-ups,' through books and courses and professors. Still, a voice remains which is not completely muffled and which cries out every so often - every time its gag is loosened by an unexpected jolt in the routine. The voice cries out its great questioning of everything, but we stifle it again right away. — Rene Daumal

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment. — Charlie Kimball

It's very seductive to focus on what you don't like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do. — Talib Kweli

She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. You will see that we are not lovers like others, for whom love is both a punishment and a gift ... Our love has never punished, only rewarded. Such love therein lies the eudaimonic life. — Roman Payne

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else. — Stephen Covey

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself. — Henry David Thoreau

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa. — Vonda Shepard