Wijsheidstand Quotes & Sayings

Change is the law of life,' she said quietly.
'On the other hand,' I protested, 'some things don't change fast enough!'
'Like what?' Mother asked.
'Like fat, funny-looking me!'
Mother snorted. 'You're extremely good-looking. All my children are.' I expected her to add, 'I wouldn't have it any other way,' but she said, instead, 'If you think you're too heavy, lose some weight.'
'Easier said than done,' I muttered.
'If there's one thing I can't bear,' Mother scolded, 'it's self-pity, particularly from one who has no reason to pity herself. Are you crippled? Are you stupid? Are you hungry, or ill-clothed? If you were then you'd have something to gripe about. You're fatherless, it's true, but then I'm husbandless. Somehow, we manage. — Barbara Cohen

When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship. — Alexandra Potter

You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! Can't you see, it's just a terrible vicious circle! — Paul Murray

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance. — Alexandra Robbins

Do you speak Parseltongue?" I ask. "What?" His face screws up. — Tarryn Fisher

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning. — Orison Swett Marden

corner into the Vicolo del Fiori. He faced four tall men dressed as gladiators, shoulder to shoulder, and at once he knew that something was wrong. "Stop — George McNeill

Thereafter, staggering semiparalytic down the night streets, he would often ask passing policemen if they knew the way to Betelgeuse. — Douglas Adams

Hope. It's an amazing thing. It grows inside of you like a vine and wraps around your heart, making it warm. Until someone stomps on it. — Vi Keeland