Wijsheidswratjes Quotes & Sayings

And she told me I deserved a merit badge for it ... which was such a particularly funny, particularly uncanny thing for her to have said, because when I was about eight years old and I was a Cub Scout, all the boys in our den were sitting around in the kitchen of our den mother one afternoon, and she lit a cigarette bending over the flame from the front burner of the stove, and she set her hair on fire, and I put it out - I don't remember if I just smothered it with my hands or doused it with some Sprite or what - but she stared at me with this sort of demented look of gratitude on her face (she drank) and she said, 'I'm going to recommend that you get a merit badge for this,' and sure enough I did, I actually got a merit badge for extinguishing the fire in our den mother's hair. — Mark Leyner

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? — Andy Stern

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. — Jerome K. Jerome

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time. — Richard Preston

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. — Atul Gawande

i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.

but then.

there are some nights i imagine what i might do if you showed up. how if you walked into the room this very second every awful thing you've ever done would be tossed out the closet window and all the love would rise up again. it would pour through my eyes as if it never really left in the first place. as if it's been practicing how to stay silent so long only so it could be this loud on your arrival. can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn't leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you. — Rupi Kaur

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. — Pat Buchanan

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white. — Jacob Zuma

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic

Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do." "Nonetheless," said the star, "he has my heart. — Neil Gaiman

The purpose of human life is to expand love. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission. — A.S. King