Verzoeningsdag Quotes & Sayings

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense. — Michael Learned

She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement - a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive. — Aspen Matis

The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow. — A.G. Roemmers

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me
indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm
and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. — Alexandre Dumas

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you? — Ada Palmer

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them. — Chael Sonnen

I did this for you, you know, she always tells him.

Did you? he wants to say.

Because he doesn't remember ever asking for kumquats or hybrid cardio machines, but who knows? Maybe all this time, all the little ways he looked at her and didn't look at her, all the things he said or didn't say or didn't say enough added up to this awful request without his knowledge or consent, like those ransom notes made from letters cut from different magazines. — Mona Awad

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do. — Monica Ali

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. — Andrew Cuomo

To dislike a writer's politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible with the first. — George Orwell

They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone. — Billy Joel

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet ... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way
on their own terms. — George Packer

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. — Mary Balogh

Never. I wouldn't trade one day I've spent married to Clarisse for even an hour of being single again. I need Clarisse like I need air. — Nicole Clark

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last. — Bill Gurley