Vergeven Oefenen Quotes & Sayings

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Don't underestimate the effects of complacency ... cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose. — Erica Goros

You only love once and and then maybe not again. Not on a day like this. The rain, the rain, the rain. — Daniel Handler

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing. — Mitch Albom

Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh! ... Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah! — T.D. Jakes

Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She — Kate Atkinson

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food. — Liam Hemsworth

Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At the same time, Korea had a much lower literacy rate than Argentina (which had one of the highest in the world) and about one-fifth the income per person; today it has three times as much. Further, over the same period, sub-Saharan Africa saw markedly increasing literacy rates, accompanied with a decrease in their standard of living. We can multiply the examples (Pritchet's study is quite thorough), but I wonder why people don't realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon here again. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You ever think that school dances are a form of legalized prostitution? — Alex Flinn

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote. — Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew