Struiken Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. — Miguel De Cervantes

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone. — Sappho

I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system. — Marq De Villiers

There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him. It's all very complex and subtle. The story is about a woman who persuades a man in power to a different temper and attitude, and so it is about women's wiles, what women will get up to. She has a plan, she has a scheme. — Marina Warner

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid. — Mika Brzezinski

Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it. — Alastair Reynolds

Ben m'boy," Jubal said gently, "as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable. — Robert A. Heinlein

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next. — Sophocles

But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line? — Orson Scott Card

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred! — Tom Stoppard