Verhaegen Walravens Quotes & Sayings

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life. — Lord Chesterfield

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength. — Vladimir Putin

We will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God's values occupy our lives. — Bill Hybels

Whose house is this? Whose night keeps out the light In here? Say, who owns this house? It's not mine. I dreamed another, sweeter, brighter With a view of lakes crossed in painted boats; Of fields wide as arms open for me. This house is strange. Its shadows lie. Say, tell me, why does its lock fit my key? — Toni Morrison

Gout produces calculus in the kidney ... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout. — Thomas Sydenham

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. — Charles Bukowski

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy ... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself. — Vaclav Havel

Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. — David Moyes