Rietveld Quotes & Sayings

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty. — Josephus

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. — G.K. Chesterton

Shane raised his brows when he set eyes on my apron. "Been roped into galley duties?" "Nah. I slaughtered Leo with an electric carving knife. I put this on so I could dismember his body without mucking up my t-shirt. — Gillibran Brown

And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did. — Eddie Lenihan

I think there's a very strong Calvinistic bias against a free lunch. The idea that you could achieve a spiritual insight without suffering, soul-searching, flagellation, and that sort of thing, is abhorrent to people because they believe that the vision of these higher dimensions should be vouchsafed to the good, and probably to them only after death. It is alarming to people to think that they could take a substance like psilocybin or DMT and have these kinds of experiences. — Terence McKenna

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint. — Roseanne Barr

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people. — Jean Houston

What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed ... . Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI MAGESA, African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life — Christopher Ryan

Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely. — Alexander Pope

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity ... with some patches of seats left empty. — George Hamilton