Beertje Paddington Quotes

#1. Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

Nick Frost

#4. I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Charlie Pierce

#6. I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Rupert Friend

#7. The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. NOTE TO SELF: Refusing pain medication when someone is forcibly snapping your bone back into place is a bad fucking idea. Especially when it takes multiple tries. If the flash of white light I saw was any indication, the bastards tried to kill me.

Anna Paige

#9. And everyone knows I'm a mad scientist. It's amazing what everyone knows, isn't it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that's neither here nor there.

Mira Grant

#10. You cannot kickstart a dead horse

Thom Yorke

#11. Are you sure? A man's task is to die with honour, but a woman's task is to endure.

Remittance Girl

#12. I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Nigel Dennis