Spreken Quotes & Sayings

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen. — Luis A. Ferre

There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again. — Marya Hornbacher

Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own. — John Jackson Miller

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart — Nikki Giovanni

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle. — Flannery O'Connor

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. — George A. Moore

The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially. — T. Harv Eker

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people. — Jo Brand

Fight back. Bite back. — Benjamin Percy

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. — Aberjhani

I'm serious! You have to promise me right now, this instant, that you won't leave me once you meet him.Most people would run."
"I'm not most people."
I smile."I know. But you still have to promise."
His eyes lock on mine."Anna, I promise that I will never leave you. — Stephanie Perkins

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust. — Azim Premji