Refl Ter D Finition Quotes & Sayings

In 1568 the Dutch, who were mainly Protestant, revolted against their Catholic Spanish overlord. At first the rebels seemed to play the role of Don Quixote, courageously tilting at invincible windmills. Yet within eighty years the Dutch had not only secured their independence from Spain, but had managed to replace the Spaniards and their Portuguese allies as masters of the ocean highways, build a global Dutch empire, and become the richest state in Europe. The secret of Dutch success was credit. The Dutch burghers, who had little taste for combat on land, hired mercenary armies to fight the Spanish for them. The Dutch themselves meanwhile — Yuval Noah Harari

Fine. Stay. I don't care," I rolled onto my side and closed my eyes. "But don't think I'm going to share the bed!"
~Touching Smoke — Airicka Phoenix

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it. — Dionne Warwick

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay. — Keith Ablow

Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt. — Gloria Steinem

And we ... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors. — Will Arnett

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. — Colum McCann

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn't. — Jen Hatmaker

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again — Rumi

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every
moment of their time together had meant so little to him — Sarah MacLean

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. — Frank Moore Colby

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to
worrying that things aren't going to work out. — Khaled Hosseini

Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question. — Jasper Fforde

How do you think I got to this point? Each day another step on an unending staircase? Months of searching, dredging through the filthiest places you could ever imagine, all in an attempt to find knowledge in the words of degenerates? To weed truths from the mouths of liars? You have no cause to judge my actions, and more than that you have no right. You do not know the things I have been through or the evil of the man I am searching for. He stole everything I had. Tortured me to the point of madness and left me with nothing. I am destroyed. All I could have had is gone, and there will never be an opportunity to regain it. Do you truly think a man like that deserves to be left alive? After all he has done? Or that, given the chance, he would not do the same thing to others? — Angela B. Wade

All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity. — Hazrat Inayat Khan