Tafeltjes Leren Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. — Alfred North Whitehead

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown ... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open. — Jeremy Larner

I'll pay for sanity, but sanity don't come cheap. — Silverchair

General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate. — Donald Rumsfeld

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist. — Fernando Pessoa

In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus. — S.J. Scott

What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy. — Suzanne Collins

Your biggest problem in ministry and in life isn't that you'll make a mistake, but that you'll be consumed by the fear of making a mistake. — Karl Vaters

Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform. — Leo Durocher

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power. — Abdus Salam

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember ... — Klaus Mann

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. — Emile Hirsch

(and thus on these evenings as the twilight softly fell and the terrace began to fill with chattering, beautifully dressed sophisticates,) I discerned in the shadows the faces of all the impossible heroes and heroines I had ever dreamed of since that moment when my hapless spirit had become entrapped by the magic of the printed word. — William Styron

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it. — Benjamin Franklin