Verbanden Signaalwoorden Quotes & Sayings

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident? — Agatha Christie

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted? — Terry Eagleton

That doesn't matter. Gorky's a vain man. We must bind him with cables to the Party," replied Stalin.3 It worked: during the kulak liquidation, Gorky unleashed his hatred of the backward peasants in Pravda: "If the enemy does not surrender, he must be exterminated." He toured concentration camps and admired their re-educational value. He supported slave labour projects such as the Belomor Canal which he visited with Yagoda, whom he congratulated: "You rough fellows do not realize what great work you're doing!"4 Yagoda, — Simon Sebag Montefiore

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education. — Gretchen Wilson

Watching copulating dung-beetles is exciting if you drink enough Red Bull, Jack. — Jonathan Dunne

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me? — Storm Jameson

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds. — Stanislaw Pigon

Why is it, Master," he asked bitterly, "that despite all a physician is able to do, he is as a leaf before the wind, and the real power lies only with Allah? — Noah Gordon