Westerveld Begraafplaats Quotes & Sayings

Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest — Paulo Coelho

Why don't I give you a preview of what I intend to do in order to wake you up. — Samantha Young

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. — Alice McDermott

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. — James Cook

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. — Ralph Ellison

We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. — Eve Ensler

Write more thank-you cards, but draw fewer swastikas on them. — Michael Ian Black

I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind. — Helen Oyeyemi

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth. — James A. Michener

Solar power was way uneconomical when Nixon was president and the subsidies began. It remains so today. Because of physical limitations having to do with the huge area of solar panels required to produce any significant amount of power, and the fact that we insist on having things like night and clouds, solar is unlikely to ever be more than a niche energy source. And an unreliable one at that. — Anonymous

None of what's become of me was Seattle's fault. Well, it might be Seattle's fault. The people are pretty boring. But let's withhold final judgment until I start being more of an artist and less of a menace. — Maria Semple

Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's — Colleen Hoover

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. — Arthur Koestler

You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last. — Jeff Dunham