Vollenhovense Quotes & Sayings

The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics. — John Brunner

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not. — Baldassare Castiglione

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.
Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. — Sarah Dessen

What a man does not understand, he does not possess. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The better I know you, the more I will dislike you, and the more you will dislike me. So let us keep to ourselves. — Katherine Boo

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. — Ronald Reagan

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others. — Rachel Cusk

Love can provide strength when intellect can find no reason for it. — Susan Waterwyk