Batavian Quotes

#1. In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

John Lothrop Motley

#2. The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

Wilson Follett

#3. There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described ... I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.

Sophie Blackall

#4. Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)

John Cleese

#5. Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

#6. Because we only are given one life on this world, and there is no wrong way to live and enjoy it.

Pepper Winters

#7. If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.

Mark Batterson

#8. When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Czeslaw Milosz

#9. The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

George R. Stewart

#10. The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Harold Lasswell

#12. Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

Ashley Judd

#13. Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

John Hickenlooper

#14. Women share everything. It's the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches." He

Chris Cleave

#15. The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.

Gena Showalter