Rechte Lijn Quotes & Sayings

A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day in court by dying in the often miserable conditions of the prisons. They too would be salted and put on trial. Breton historians have discovered that in 1784 in the town of Cornouaille, Maurice LeCorre had died in prison and was ordered salted for trial. But due to some bureaucratic error, the corpse did not get a trial date and was found by a prison guard more than seven years later, not only salted but fermented in beer, at which point it was buried without trial. — Mark Kurlansky

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be. — Dwight Schultz

Perry, when I fuck you, you're going to want it. And you're going to be sober. I don't want just your body in all of this. I want everything. Your soul too."
"That's a pretty tall order," I said breathlessly ...
"I know," he said determinedly. "And it's something I am willing to work for. — Karina Halle

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds. — Joyce Carol Oates

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo ... and it's worth fighting for. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. — Anthony Bourdain

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful. — Timothy Keller

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. — Susan Sontag

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting. — Alison Gopnik

Fuck with the bull, you get the horns. — Garth Ennis

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement. — Natascha McElhone

Thus the authority of compassion is the possibility of man to forgive his brother, because forgiveness is only real for him who has discovered the — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest — Pradeepa Pandiyan

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life. — Gwen Stefani