Volgens Vertaling Quotes & Sayings

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. — Margaret Atwood

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't
think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry
of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems
with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long
before poets had to deal with the page and white
space ... it's natural. — Yusef Komunyakaa

When you're asleep, no one asks you to do anything. No one expects anything of you. And you don't have to face any of your troubles. — Stephanie Perkins

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty. — Jewel

When we experience moments of ecstasy-in play, in art, in sex-they come not as an exception, an accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be ... Ecstasy is an idea, a goal, but it can be the expectation of every day. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in our heart, clear in our mind, rooted in our soul, and suffused with the energy, the spirit of life, are our birthright. It's really not that hard to stop and luxuriate in the joy and wonder of being. Children do it all the time. It's a natural human gift that should be at the heart of our lives. — Gabrielle Roth

We're no better in God's eyes as Americans than Rawandans are, or anybody else. — Wayne Dyer

A drunkard cannot plead his case. — Nachman Of Breslov

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. — Virginia Woolf

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. — T. S. Eliot

What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing. — McGeorge Bundy

From the beginnings of Israelite religion the belief that God had chosen this particular people to carry out His mission has been both a cornerstone of Hebrew faith and a refuge in moments of distress. And yet, the prophets felt that to many of their contemporaries this cornerstone was a stumbling block; this refuge, an escape. They had to remind the people that chosenness must not be mistaken as divine favoritism or immunity from chastisement, but, on the contrary, that it meant being more seriously exposed to divine judgment and chastisement. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. — Joseph Howe

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring. — Zoe Tapper

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. — Orison Swett Marden