De Ruyter Quotes

#1. The greater your dreams, the more unrealistic they sound.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky.

Zac Hanson

#3. Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse ... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom ...

Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

#4. Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

W. H. Auden

#5. I knew about wild plums twice before I tasted any.

Grace Stone Coates

#6. After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

#7. I suppose we all have our quirks." Her gaze travels over my outfit as she says "quirks." I'm in my usual hacker chic outfit I wear on jobs, lots of tight black everything, punk meets goth, short on class and full of sass. Because fuck you, that's why.

J.T. Geissinger

#8. For anybody who suspects that we need to reform the drug laws, there is an easier argument to make, and a harder argument to make. The easier argument is to say that we all agree drugs are bad - it's just that drug prohibition is even worse.

Johann Hari

#9. Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa