Wijchen Nieuws Quotes & Sayings

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don't have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is. — S. Kelley Harrell

Life's adventures are only possible because of life's challenges. — Mike Dooley

Comfort makes fools of us that way, and a kid gets faith back quick. — Mary Karr

Debate, but do not argue.
Challenge, but do not force your opinions.
To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.
To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. — William Petty

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War. — G. Edward Griffin

oil paints...the look of licked lips. — Margaret Atwood

There are no gains without pains. — Benjamin Franklin

God timely supply my need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent. — Peter Singer

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. — Robin McKinley

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves! — Georges Danton

When you're sick and dying, the ego is and should be the first thing to go. I know there're gurus who teach people how to release the ego, to conquer the ego. I get it now, but I didn't back when I was healthy. It's moot now. The guy who falls off the toilet and knocks himself out no longer has an ego. — J.R. Rain

I wrap an arm around his waist. If I'm honest, I wanted this as much as the blowjob - the right to just touch him. To lean on him, skin to skin. — Sarina Bowen