Meegenomen Boek Quotes

#1. Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Emily Post

#2. Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

Oswald Chambers

#3. A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

Buck Owens

#4. We move by inches, not miles,' said Gus Dewar with a smile. 'That's politics.

Ken Follett

#5. Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

Alaric Longward

#6. Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge.

Alexander Chee

#7. All authority must be out of a man's self, turned ... either upon an art, or upon a man.

Francis Bacon

#8. Because shaving and putting on a bunch of foundation every day are emotionally exhausting reminders of being trans, she gets a step removed from them by monologuing like she's explaining them to someone.

Imogen Binnie

#9. If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Steve Irwin

#11. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

Joe Abercrombie

#12. In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared for the beast that was about to pick them up by the throats and shake them until their teeth rattled.

Melodie Ramone