Waarover Schreef Quotes & Sayings

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast. — Robert Winston

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically. — Eve Ensler

For she felt a sudden emptiness; a frustration. Her feeling had come too late; there it was ready; but he no longer needed it. — Virginia Woolf

I thought of myself as a global citizen. — Eduardo Saverin

As I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. — William James

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration. — Vincent Louis Carrella

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. — Alan Furst

Bisexual? Me? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I'm not. — Harry Styles

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar

What Might Have Been {Couplet}
Dwell not upon what might have been,
Within such idle spin, you can never win. — Beryl Dov