Willemijn May Quotes & Sayings

I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I'm a green person. — Willemijn Verkaik

A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable. — Nancy Birdsall

the end is already written, it's just a matter of getting there. — Marie Hall

You just have to know that you will always get up again. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. And that's what'll make you stronger. That's what happened to me — Willemijn Verkaik

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide by gentlemanly rules of engagement. One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen 'conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, they immediately retreat. What an unfair method of carrying on a war! — Ron Chernow

A healthy man is not an entity; he is a process, a dynamic process. Or we can say that a healthy man is not a noun but a verb, not a river but a rivering. He is continuously flowing in all dimensions, overflowing. — Osho

Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. — Walter Darby Bannard

It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone. — Jack London

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became. — Marcus Pfister

Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey. — Willemijn Verkaik

Not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously — Waking Life

So you do have more fight in you. (Thanatos)
Looks like the devil just hiked his ass up to Alaska to see the snow. C'mon, punk, let's dance. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music. — Willemijn Verkaik

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world. — Ann Patchett

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right. — Benjamin Whichcote

Every question does not deserve an answer. — Publilius Syrus

People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now. — Willemijn Verkaik