Quirijn Van Quotes & Sayings

Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests. — Patrick Geddes

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once. — Daniel Boone

But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more. — Kahlil Gibran

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues. — R.D. Laing

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation. — Ani DiFranco

It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out. — Erik Weihenmayer

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

I want to tell you I'm strong and resolute, but in truth, I feel afraid and alone and uncertain. I feel as if he has died, and I suppose in some way it's true. I'm left with nothing but this strange beating in my heart that tells me I'm meant to do something in this world. I cannot apologize for it, or for loving this small beating as much as him. — Sue Monk Kidd

I don't like message movies either. — Don Cheadle

It's art that's taught me to think and to write. — Andy Goldsworthy

Don't be consumed by the fire of jealousy, use that fire to chart your own path to success. — Vinita Kinra

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class. — Joe Biden

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality — Dennis Prager

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!
Not what he pleases, but what he can. — George MacDonald