Steenmannetje Quotes & Sayings

Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is a beautiful burn in the quiet corner of the heart that will not be ignored. — Adriane Leigh

The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy. — Lyn White

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. — Peter Singer

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake. — Plato

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. — Judith Martin

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse. — David Foster Wallace

The woman frowned. I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me. — Ilona Andrews

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace. — Jane Green

Epsom salts. It felt wonderful. After massaging them with Vitamin E oil, Sue returned — Wodke Hawkinson

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S. — Roger Angell