Bunschoten Netherlands Quotes

#1. I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Ian McKellen

#2. People long for God, and more of them than we might think are willing to accept the idea that getting close to him might be painful. The church needs to worry less about coddling our superficial tastes and impulses and more about giving us the whole truth.

Rod Dreher

#3. If there's anything worth any risk at all, it's got to be love, right?

Jessica Verdi

#4. I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Roz Savage

#5. It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

Booker T. Washington

#6. But they all recognized the steady, no-nonsense influence Jack had had on Truman; he was the ballast to Truman's airy sails.

Melanie Benjamin