Vroegere Hoofdstad Quotes & Sayings

WE HAVE, if we're lucky, about thirty thousand days to play the game of life. How we play it will be determined by what we value. Or, as David Foster Wallace put it, "Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritualtype thing to worship - be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive." We now — Arianna Huffington

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende

I've said it before and I say it again: A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do. — Henry Rollins

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

The king of the gods took away this man's family, everyone that he loved - and still this particular man did not surrender. — Matthew Woodring Stover

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins. — Hilary Mantel

I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home. — Paulette Goddard

Inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason - you and all other conscious beings as such - are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. — Erwin Schrodinger