Nelleke Verkaart Quotes

#1. Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

Renee Ahdieh

#2. Walked around and hugged April so tight she let out a small fart. The both of us cracked up and I fell on the floor in hysterics.

Dannika Dark

#3. Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Richard Carlson

#4. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

Gary Haugen

#5. Once I stopped worrying about what people would think when they heard my truth, my truth set me free.

Deborah J. Monroe

#6. I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

Michael Cooper

#7. If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Guy Finley

#9. When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

John Of Kronstadt

#10. Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Ugo Betti

#11. The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.

Margaret Atwood

#12. To conquer your nature is better than to conquer the whole world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it.

Joanna Gaines

#14. My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Eleanor Catton

#15. Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Soren Kierkegaard