Van Gelderen Jeffrey Quotes & Sayings

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive. — Jodi Picoult

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced. — Arundhati Roy

Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth. — Anurag Bhatt

... there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice - the rituals and so on - the other form of faith involves actually believing in it. — Alexander McCall Smith

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time. — Karla Cheatham Mosley

These Moments Cascade Upon One Another
Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light. — Carew Papritz

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants. — Ross Perot

I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing — Yolanda Adams

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. — Eli Roth

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something. — Lauren Tarshis

The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were sometimes even more aggressive. It was that they were - without question - the stupidest creatures on earth, and that was even if one included cats. It was useless to try reasoning with them, whatever language one chose. Worse, you could never tell when one of them would come at you. It was not in his nature to hate other dogs, but Benjy disliked Dalmatians the way some humans dislike men named Steve or Biff. — Andre Alexis

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do. — Hutch Harris

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people. — Hugh Hefner

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. — Yann Martel

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. — Anonymous