Stijlfiguur Quotes & Sayings

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. — B.C. Forbes

The truth is ever best. — Sophocles

My worthy friend, gray are all theories
And green alone Life's golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell. — Megan Whalen Turner

Meaningless is a life without love — Anonymous

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later. — Danny Brown

There's no better school than real life. — Lisa Genova

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws. — John Dingell

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence — C.S. Lewis

Whenever you are feeling isolated and weary, feel the present moment as if it were a woman. Feel like you are embracing a woman, physically. Feel the front of your body as if it were pressed against the front of a woman's naked body, being filled with the delight of her feminine softness and liveliness. Feel her breasts and belly against you. Breathe deeply as if you were inhaling her intoxicating fragrance. And, while inhaling, receive deeply into your body not just her scent, but the very essence of feminine deliciousness, as if it were nourishing food for your masculine soul. — David Deida

The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don't entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it's impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. — Kristin Cashore

On any given day, something can come along and steal our hearts. It may be any old thing: a rosebud, a lost cap, a favorite sweater from childhood, an old Gene Pitney record. A miscellany of trivia with no home to call their own. Lingering for two or three days, that something soon disappears, returning to the darkness. There are wells, deep wells, dug in our hearts. Birds fly over them."
-from "Pinball, 1973 — Haruki Murakami