Vijand Van Quotes & Sayings

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good. — Virat Kohli

What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one's fate was inalterably fixed? A man's entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he'd long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man's life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man's very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn't it at least be possible? — James Jennewein

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers. — Charles Portis

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience. — James A. Baldwin

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,
I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone. — Charlotte Eriksson

My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out. — April Winchell

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. — Neal Stephenson

Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt — Robertson Davies

If something is not to your liking, change your liking. — Patricia Ryan Madson

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed. — Ishmael Reed

When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house. — Holly Thompson