Voorbereidend Quotes & Sayings

ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the — Richard Russo

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around. — Nicolaus Copernicus

I don't have a Twitter account. — Anna Chlumsky

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need. — Shonda Rhimes

You've moved on, V. So have I. We're different people than we were back then, but with a little bit of effort, we might manage to be friends again."

~ Sam Fitzpatrick — Mackenzie Crowne

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn — Kenji Miyazawa

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth. — Tom Clancy

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. — Elizabeth Loftus

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out. — Victoria Legrand

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. You want him to become a robot. — Ayn Rand

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there. — Harri Holkeri

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues. — Billy Crystal

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. — David Small