Elfstedentocht Quotes

#1. You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw

Vladimir Lenin

#2. I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.

Dai Sijie

#3. A lie, that we come from water.
The truth is we were born
from stones, dragons, the sea's
teeth,

Margaret Atwood

#4. I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

Daniel Radcliffe

#5. It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

Graham Cooke

#6. Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking.

Loren Weisman

#8. Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Dalai Lama

#9. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Frederick Lenz