Vandenbrande Grimbergen Quotes & Sayings

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. — Rebecca Harding Davis

His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand. — Peter Carey

My heart beat violently. My forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. I asked myself for the first time what it was that I was about to see when this door was opened? What chamber, long closed - what deed of mystery, long forgotten - what family secret, long buried, would be revealed to my eyes? Was it right, after all, that I should pursue this discovery? Ought I not, perhaps, to go back as I had come; tell my husband of the secret upon which I had stumbled; and leave it to him to deal with according to his pleasure? Hesitating thus, I had, even now, more than half a mind to go no farther. It was a struggle between delicacy and curiosity; and I was a mere woman, after all, and curiosity prevailed.
"Come what may," said I aloud, "I will see what lies beyond this door!"
And with this I opened it. — Amelia B. Edwards

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. — Steve Earle

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

She had been warned away from it her entire life, for its depth came quickly, its coldness was fierce, and the Kelpie lay in wait. — Sara Gruen

No," he says, stepping closer and giving my hand another squeeze. "That's not reality. Love just makes everything else in life easier to bear. It's like having an army on your side. But love itself isn't easy. Most people have to fight for it, they fight to keep it. Love is a war, and half the time you're battling your own fucking self. — Karina Halle

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. — Criss Jami

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. — Patricia Cornwell

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. — John Donne

The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster. — Coventry Patmore