Vergissing Van Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards. — Frederick Lenz

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. — Robert Emmet

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there. — Story Musgrave

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you. — Catrice M. Jackson

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough. — Tom Krause

When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in - blood and salt. — Kim Liggett

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty. — Ovid

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life. — Robert L. Payton

Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes. — Charles Baudelaire

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. — William J. Clinton

if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. — Daniel Kahneman

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone. — Brene Brown