Waarheid Spreken Quotes & Sayings

... growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing. — Louisa May Alcott

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom ... " & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye. — David Mitchell

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI

He knew that one should not punch people who annoyed one, although there was a case for it at times, a seemingly irresistible case. — Alexander McCall Smith

In the pursuit of your dreams,
you are your greatest asset
and doubt is your greatest liability. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success. — Frances E. Willard

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating. — Jessica Simpson