Algemene Nederlandse Quotes

#1. No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Ralph Nader

#2. There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Maya Angelou

#4. I went straight in. Fade in, one ... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

Ronald Harwood

#5. Simple acceptance Like waves belong on water We are as we are There is no need to be more than what is. In fact, that is impossible by definition. We can feel good about being part of the natural order of things and simply accept that we are worthy as we are.

Karl Grass

#6. Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

David Eddings

#7. I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

#8. Between July 1936 and June 1937, the number of children in the city receiving free school education rose from 34,431 to 116,846, and for the first time free nurseries were opened.

Nick Lloyd

#9. I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

#10. It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

Philip Pullman

#11. I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

Eric Clapton

#12. Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.

Corneille Ewango

#13. Twat is twat and that is that.

George Carlin