Mijn Schat Quotes

#1. Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

Will Ferrell

#3. The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Max Lerner

#4. Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

Toni Morrison

#5. We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.

William Kingdon Clifford

#6. Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

Charles McCarry

#7. I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

#9. This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

Michael Newdow

#10. Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great.

Leon Trotsky

#11. The soul has more diseases than the body.

Josh Billings

#12. There is no greater enemy than pride.

Sanskrit

#13. 'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Desiderius Erasmus

#14. I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

Rita Williams-Garcia