Sjouke Toonstra Quotes & Sayings

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent. — Ezra Taft Benson

National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war. — Adolf Hitler

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox ... — Stanislaw Lem

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. — Jim Butcher

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you. — A.A. Milne

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race. — Louis Zamperini

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path. — Eugene H. Peterson

See the cat? See the cradle? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting. — Ray Winstone

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress. — Ed Begley Jr.

Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony. — Richie Havens

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! — Logan Pearsall Smith