David Van Reybrouck Quotes

#1. The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Guy De Maupassant

#2. Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Jacob Neusner

#3. At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Joe Bastianich

#4. Early anthropology was not at all seen as art for art's sake; it was intended to facilitate the colonizer's work.

David Van Reybrouck

#5. Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone.

Ann Brashares

#6. I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Patricia Marx

#7. I was looking for what rarely ends up on the page, because history is so much more than that which is written down.

David Van Reybrouck

#8. You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

Harvey MacKay

#9. Life is what we make it.

Chelsea Fine

#10. We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Carl Levin

#11. Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

David Harsanyi

#12. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.

DeiAmor Verus