Verlaten Ziekenhuis Quotes & Sayings

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. — John Steinbeck

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child. — Benjamin Kunkel

That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own ramparts. — Brock Clarke

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility. — Meher Baba

the history is there, but it's not visible. — David Levithan

Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education? — Craig Kielburger

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. — Jacques Ellul

I have repeatedly said that success requires concerted efforts and support of the fans. — Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult. — Debasish Mridha

An educated woman knows how to make both men and women feel at ease in her presence without losing respect. — Daniel Whyte III

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. — Doug Elmendorf

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. — Alton Brown

Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson ... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What's the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none. — Wayne Allyn Root

The beating party would go on for the next three or four hours before they turned me over to another team that was going to use different torture techniques. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The combination of these two trends - declining real wages and inflated asset prices - led the American middle class to use debt as a substitute of income. People lacked adequate earnings but felt wealthier. A generation of Americans grew accustomed to borrowing against their homes to finance consumption, and banks were more than happy to be their enablers. In my generation, second mortgages were considered highly risky for homeowners. The financial industry re-branded them as home equity loans, and they became ubiquitous. Third mortgages, even riskier, were marketed as 'home equity lines of credit. — Robert Kuttner