Walgelijk Engels Quotes & Sayings

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen. — Semir Zeki

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know. — Donald L. Hicks

We will never find a "good" solution to the question of abortion. What we need to do is to back away from the idea that there is an ideological "fix" to every problem. Then again, that's just one opinion. And I could be wrong. I often am. — Frank Schaeffer

The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them from the same stem cell. — David Mitchell

I don't dislike anybody. — Joel Osteen

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart. — George Michael

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill. — Chief Joseph

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation] — Ludwig Borne

And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing. — Imbolo Mbue

This was the Evangelical Revival that now began to take hold on the propertied class, who, frightened by what was happening in France, were anxiously mending their fences, spiritual as well as political. To escape rationalism's horrid daughter, revolution, they were only too willing to be enfolded in the anti-intellectual embrace of Evangelicalism, even if it demanded faith and good works and a willing suspension of disbelief. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. — Susan Sontag

As the Battle of Normandy raged, the Germans held fast to the illusion, so carefully planted and now so meticulously sustained, that a great American army under Patton was preparing to pounce and the German forces in the Pas de Calais must remain in place to repel it. — Ben Macintyre

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. — Nancy Pearcey