Pieterjan Vangerven Quotes

#1. What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...

Brian D. McLaren

#2. He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Neil Gaiman

#3. She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.

Gillian Flynn

#4. I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

Larry Bishop

#5. War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#6. Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

Paul Goodman

#7. It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

Nella Larsen

#8. Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so I had my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#10. You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

#11. Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

John Lennon

#12. When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

Matthew Syed

#13. The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

Jon Voight

#15. I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

CeCe McDonald