Stijn Baert Quotes & Sayings

When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give. — Maya Angelou

I've tried to shield myself from life and inhabit my own small, safe corner; but there's no immunity from life. — Ann Kidd Taylor

I feel sorry for the man who marries you ... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not. — Harold Brodkey

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. — Salman Rushdie

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. — Laurie Anderson

I close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what's happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is believing that I'm strong enough and will recognize when I'm not. - Emma — Rebecca Donovan

Pen wanted to ask if becoming a sorcerer made a man more, or less, attractive as a husband, but he had an uneasy feeling that he could guess. — Lois McMaster Bujold

roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, chips, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup and, for some strange reason, mint humbugs. The — J.K. Rowling

This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt. Our life is but one tiny, brief, insignificant piece of this vast universe. So, why, the nihilist argues, do people really think that it is important to be a "good person", get good grades, or get a good job? What difference could that possibly make to anything?

Nihilism is an honest evaluation of what a universe without God would look like. Nietzsche was right about that. Where he went wrong was in thinking this was true of the actual universe. — Jon Morrison

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life. — Charles Baxter