Uniek Zijn Quotes & Sayings

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. — Damien Chazelle

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks. — Wilson Rawls

There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life. — Wright Morris

Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness. — Israelmore Ayivor

He didn't tell me I was a fool and that my idea would fall off the tracks on the way to the launchpad. He didn't tell me I would surely crater even if I did briefly lift off. He was resolute, unequivocal, and had no agenda. He was with me. — Bob Goff

The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists. — Sandra Steingraber

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it. — Charlie Munger

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet. — Barry Diller

My sister and I practiced our howling and barking so we would be able to talk to our dogs if our mother ever let us get any. — Cynthia Kadohata

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret and wicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhood shrink from them as from a thing diseased. — Algernon Blackwood

Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives. — Joseph Goldstein

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary. — DeForest Soaries

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men. — Hesiod