Josefien Rodermans Quotes

#1. So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

Price Pritchett

#2. The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?

Hanif Kureishi

#3. Get old, you might as well not worry about your dignity. Anybody talks about dignity for old folks has never been around one as far as I can tell. You can keep your spunk, but you have to give up your vanity early on.

Sue Grafton

#4. Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

Ed Seykota

#5. The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

Philip Yancey

#6. TEIRESIAS:
You have your eyes but see not where you are
in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.
Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing
you are enemy to kith and kin
in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.

Sophocles

#7. Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.

Liane Moriarty

#8. Character is greatness inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. ...citizens of the U.S. live under an Empire of "evil doers" who have set themselves juxtaposed to humanity instilling in us from our youngest days how to slay our human element in exchange for an external existence of malnourished pride.

Steven Storm

#10. Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

Charles E. McKenzie

#11. Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine I'm talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for your loss?

Barry Webster

#12. The 'Lord's Prayer' is totally of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

Sefi Atta

#14. Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

William Fleming

#15. It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.

~ Rudransh Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam