Simonne Peeters Quotes & Sayings

True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle? — Ayi Kwei Armah

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically. — Lady Gaga

I've been very supportive of the Islanders. I'm at every home opener. — Kevin Connolly

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. — Carlo Goldoni

We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery. — John Shelby Spong

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible. — Alfred Nobel

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure. — Charles M. Schwab

She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty. — Milan Kundera

There is nothing like stying at home for real comfort — Jane Austen

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P.G. Wodehouse

This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o' clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I'd get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos' heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me. — Jordan Sonnenblick

Then, as if in answer to a riddle posed years before, you will realize that this growth came from seeds you planted or watered or carried from place to place - and you'll be rewarded in the way that we as communal beings need most: you'll know you made a difference. — Gloria Steinem