Neeleman Family Quotes

#1. Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a girl like me.

Judy Blundell

#3. A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Mark Twain

#4. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.

Rachel Neumeier

#5. The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.

Gareth P. Jones

#6. Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
- March 15, 1783

George Washington

#7. Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#8. This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

Sheila Fitzpatrick

#9. The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.

Brit Bennett

#10. Number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago,

Elizabeth Kolbert

#11. History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#12. The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

Joseph Wambaugh

#13. People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

Atom Egoyan