Spreekwoordenboek Quotes & Sayings

Psychologists often make a distinction between mistakes where we already know the right answer and mistakes where we don't. A medication error, for example, is a mistake of the former kind: the nurse knew she should have administered Medicine A but inadvertently administered Medicine B, perhaps because of confusing labeling combined with pressure of time. But sometimes mistakes are consciously made as part of a process of discovery. Drug companies test lots of different combinations of chemicals to see which have efficacy and which don't. Nobody knows in advance which will work and which won't, but this is precisely why they test extensively, and fail often. It is integral to progress. — Matthew Syed

It shouldn't be so complicated," she begins, "to want to kiss you and just do it even where people can see. — Six De Los Reyes

The path to greatness is along with others. — Baltasar Gracian

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions. — Alexandra Bracken

Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state. — Andrew Hodges

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. — D.H. Lawrence

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. — Mahatma Gandhi

If love were only spiritual, the practices of fasting and prayer would not exist. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat. — Ken Simonton

What have you done? What have you given up?'
So many things, Cecily. More than you know. — Lauren DeStefano

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer. — George Carlin

It is most oppressive to be an aunt. — Christina Stead

I'm not even kind of a lesbian. — Oprah Winfrey

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety. — Richard Pryor

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. — Karl Lagerfeld