Toestandsaanduidingen Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know. — Moon Bloodgood

Even though brutality used toward the young, by reason of their defenselessness, provoked greater anger and greater pity, it was still true that they were resilient. Was the wind tempered to the shorn lamb? He grimaced. All the lambs were shorn now, and the wind was from the northeast, full of ice and black frost. — John Christopher

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure. — Helmut Schoeck

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own. — Benjamin Franklin

The sky peeled back for a moment, and a weak ray of sunset spilled over the scene like the diseased eye of some forgetful god
the light bearing with it cold in place of heat. — Luis Alberto Urrea

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it. — Jordin Sparks

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor. — John Green

He ached to touch her, to kiss her, but she hadn't asked him to do either - yet.
He'd rather eat his own balls than ruin this for her. — Pamela Clare

The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you. — Rick Warren

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. History is but a mode of imagining, of making us see civilizations that no longer appear upon the earth. Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs. If astronomy had not kept always in advance of the telescope, no one would ever have thought a telescope worth making. What great invention has not existed in the inventor's mind long before he gave it tangible shape? — Helen Keller

I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too. — Gerard Way

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color. — Bill Atkinson

I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert. — Pablo Neruda