Harde Nederlandse Quotes

#1. When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good in what went before is tarred indiscriminately with the bad.

John McGahern

#2. Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

George Vecsey

#3. I sing whatever comes into my head. It'll be heard by who it's meant for, and who isn't meant to hear won't understand.

Mikhail Lermontov

#4. A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP.

Walker Percy

#5. Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

Caleb Cushing

#6. And then I saw it - not below, where I had looked, but over my head, a vast and noble curve stretching away to either side, with white cloud flying between ourselves and it, a world all speckled over with blue and green like the egg of a wild bird.

Gene Wolfe

#7. It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Raymond Chandler

#8. It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

Markus Zusak

#9. What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Malcolm Turnbull