Leerlingen Van Quotes

#1. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers

#2. The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute;
he simply speaks and does what is right.

Mencius

#3. You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

Patti LaBelle

#4. Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Hedi Slimane

#5. Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

#6. A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Dana Spiotta

#7. GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.

Marissa Walsh

#8. It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Georges Simenon

#9. The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

Omari Hardwick

#10. If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Christo

#11. Trees are worth more alive than dead

Prince

#12. We are all scarred by life. And mortals die where angels recover.

Nalini Singh

#13. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Cynthia Rylant

#14. the next time you listen to Borodin remember his wife used his compositions to line the cat boxes with or to cover jars of sour milk;

Charles Bukowski

#15. The patient suffers; the family threatens; the colleagues frown; the nurse laughs; Death grins; and the young doctor dances a crazy jig amid the tumult, though once he dreamed he would glide along the floor with Death in a perfectly controlled tango.

Bert Keizer