Verschaeren Mertens Quotes & Sayings

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception. — Grace Cavalieri

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way. — Robert Greene

I wandered in the darkness looking for something better, something real. I found you, and I'll be damned if I'm going to lose you. — Sylvain Reynard

It's also vital to limit the amount of sugary foods your baby eats, especially drinks on which she may suck for a long time. — Colin Cooper

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say. — Steve King

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them. — Richard Baxter

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to. — Orson Scott Card

She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't. — Charles Dickens

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. — James A. Michener

The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. — John Jakes

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful. — Mike Ditka