Westerbork Synthesis Quotes & Sayings

Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power. — Libbie Hawker

I swear," she babbled hastily, "I won't tell a soul. I don't care. It's okay with me if you have them. I have absolutely no desire to go to the police or anything like that. I don't even like the police. Police and me have never gotten along. They gave me a ticket once for going forty-five in a forty-five zone; how could I possibly like them after that?"

~Chloe to Dageus — Karen Marie Moning

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant. — Alyson Stoner

The concept of ta'dib, if properly understood and competently explicated, is the correct concept of education in Islam, and not ta'lim or tarbiyah, which are currently in vogue among Muslims all over the world. this is because ta'dib already includes within its conceptual structure the elements of knowledge ('ilm), instruction (ta'lim), and good breeding (tarbiyah). — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. — Plautus

Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference. — Bryant McGill

Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus. — Dallas Willard

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. — Charles Jencks

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus

I'm going to fuck you, hard. I'm going to use your body until I come inside you. And then we're going to play. All night long — Jaci Burton

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. — George Santayana

There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind. — Stephanie Barron

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. — Terry Pratchett

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach. — Edgar A. Guest