Verstandigs Quotes & Sayings

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. — Clint Eastwood

Ah, hell to the no, woman, — C.D. Reiss

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations. — Dallas Willard

Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I'd developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it - she had to be ten years older than me, maybe twelve - only seemed to make things worse. Or maybe I mean better, because unrequited love does have its attractions for young men. — Stephen King

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is why the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I cry when I feel like crying. — Emily Saliers

Awkwardness with the boyfriend who tried to drown you because he thought he was his own dead brother who turned out not to be dead. Probably not a lot of advice lying around for this particular relationship problem -Hannah — Emma Carlson Berne

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage. — Dalai Lama

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back. — Ralph Marston

It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker

She was looking at him from under level brows; her face was grave and open, and there had fallen upon it the shadow of that unreasoning responsibility which is at the bottom of the most frivolous woman, the maternal watch which is as old as the world. — G.K. Chesterton

It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world. — Yann Martel

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. — Jim Leach

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend. — Don McLean