Vijsmachine Quotes & Sayings

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something? — Chris Cleave

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family. — Helen Thomas

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can. — Marilynne Robinson

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye. — Wasif Ali Wasif

He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle — Isaac Asimov

I am never weary of being useful ... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink. — Pierre Balmain

I hoped to lose myself so the day would effectively be over, and I would have no time between now and seven a.m. to worry about what would happen tomorrow ... — Jennifer Echols

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nina just liked to flirt with everything. He'd once seen her make eyes at a pair of shoes she fancied in a shop window. — Leigh Bardugo

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson