Roosje Kuizenga Quotes & Sayings

Peeves do not make very good pets. — Bo Bennett

Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents. — Anurag Shourie

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves. — Bobby Seale

We turn from the light to see. — Don Paterson

...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil. — Rosamund Kendal

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet

You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing, reading, science, art, music, math, social studies. By presenting myself as a writer with wide ranging passions - for astronomy, volcanology, art, music, history, and community service - I hope to inspire not only budding writers but also budding scientists, artists, activists... — Elizabeth Rusch

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. — William James

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read. — Lee Siegel

Very occasionally, very vaguely, English schoolboys are told not to tell lies, which is a totally different thing. I may silently support all the obscene fictions and forgeries in the universe, without once telling a lie. I may wear another man's coat, steal another man's wit, apostatize to another man's creed, or poison another man's coffee, all without ever telling a lie. But no English school-boy is ever taught to tell the truth, for the very simple reason that he is never taught to desire the truth. — G.K. Chesterton

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world. — Mahatma Gandhi