Vertongen Quotes & Sayings

when you find that special person, you want to be the best version of yourself. You want to demonstrate that you're willing to change and to overcome your fears. — Amanda Laneley

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it. — George Shinn

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors. — Adam Beach

And do you know the story about Haydn's head? They cut it away from the still-warm cadaver so some insane scientist could take apart the brain and pinpoint the location of musical genius. And the Einstein Story? He'd carefully written his will with instructions to cremate him. They followed his orders, but his disciple, ever loyal and devoted, refused to live without the master's gaze on him. Before the cremation, he took the eyes of the cadaver and put them in a bottle of alcohol to keep them watching him until the moment he should die himself. That's why I said that the crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the only absolute death. And I don't want any other. Jean-Marc, I want an absolute death. — Milan Kundera

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God! — Laura Schlessinger

This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana. — Charlaine Harris

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society. — Elise M. Boulding

She ate quickly. Hunger was a sensation so long situated in his abdomen he felt it as he would an inflamed organ. He took his time, tonguing the pulp into a little oval and resting it against his cheek like a lozenge. If the bread wouldn't fill his stomach, it might at least fill his mouth. The girl had finished half of hers before he took a second bite.
"You shouldn't rush'" he said. "There are no taste buds in your stomach."
She paused to consider his reasoning, then took another bite. "There's no hunger in your tongue," she mumbled between chews. Her cupped hand caught the crumbs and tossed them back in her mouth. — Anthony Marra

There's an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I'm disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I've had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions. — Aimee Mullins

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them. — Robert Dallek