Rondenbos Quotes & Sayings

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. — Mariella Frostrup

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us — Naomi Wolf

Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
its insidious forms, old and new. — Kofi Annan

Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother. — Victor Hugo

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz! — Michael Brecker

The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power. — Robert D. Kaplan

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when they're changing your IV bag or you're having a seizure and they're holding you. And helping you to the bathroom. You know that they love you. — Kathleen Hanna

For Deborah and her family - and surely many others in the world - that answer was so much more concrete than the explanation offered by science: that the immortality of Henrietta's cells had something to do with her telomeres and how HPV interacted with her DNA. The idea that God chose Henrietta as an angel who would be reborn as immortal cells made a lot more sense to them than the explanation — Rebecca Skloot

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books. — Lisa Brown Roberts

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Always do something different from the others. — Michele Ferrero

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep. — E.W. Howe

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post. — Vaginal Davis