Spreken Nederlands Quotes & Sayings

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash. — Steven Johnson

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them. — Dennis Lehane

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. — Jon Meacham

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. — John F. Kennedy

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. — Alvar Aalto

Because when I touch you, you fucking bloom, — L. H. Cosway

And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I'd found out long ago that I couldn't stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable. — Kim Harrison

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic. — Joel Fuhrman

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out. — Tim Tharp

It felt like time had slowed down when Rose looked up and found Kyran. They stared at the other as the battle raged around them. Then Kyran's eyes darkened and his expression turned to fury. He pulled back his hand and threw out a stream of fire, straight at Rose. — S.F. Mazhar

He therefore proceeded to build a bridge a little above the place where he had crossed before. As the method of construction was familiar to the soldiers from the previous occasion, they were able by energetic efforts to complete the task in a few days. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. — Paul Warburg

Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room. — Michael Grant

Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue. — Kelly Corrigan