Goedemiddag Quotes

#1. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

John Leo

#2. I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

Alan Alda

#3. Speak up, Charlie," I say. "If you have something to say, then say it out loud.

Victoria Scott

#4. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Marco Pierre White

#5. I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

Jodi Picoult

#6. I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#7. You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

Joe Strummer

#8. I was so ashamed of who I was.

Lady Gaga

#9. We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Thom Gunn

#10. When you venture into the unknown stumble and fall, never give up hope for the lord is always with you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#11. I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself ... I'll run to be emancipated.

Melina Marchetta

#12. My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

Wallace Shawn

#13. If we don't have to suffer, why do we? Why don't we just know how to be okay?

Gail Brenner