Schoukens Bvba Quotes & Sayings

Unprecedented yearning for fame. In a survey in 1976, people ranked being famous 15th out of 16 possible life goals. By 2007, 51% of young people said it was one of their principal ambitions. On a recent multiple-choice quiz, nearly twice as many middle-school girls said they would rather be a celebrity's personal assistant than the president of Harvard University. — Anonymous

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. — Edmund H. North

There is a presence in what is missing. That presence is our own. — Jonah Lehrer

She never knew it about herself, but she liked it when he went all bossy and demanding. She — Julie Ann Walker

He who believes he is above the law will one day find himself under its weight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true. — Al Gore

Knowing just how bad it was makes it harder to believe that I will be OK. But I suppose just because something is hard to understand, that doesn't make it any less true. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

I have to determine for myself, and not for other men. I don't blame them, or think I am better than they; their circumstances are different. I would never choose to withdraw myself from the labour and common burden of the world; but I do choose to withdraw myself from the push and the scramble for money and position. Any man is at liberty to call me a fool, and say that mankind are benefited by the push and the scramble in the long-run. But I care for the people who live now and will not be living when the long-run comes. As it is, I prefer going shares with the unlucky. — George Eliot

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. — Aeschylus

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' — Seth Numrich

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. — John Muir

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. — Taylor Momsen