Prikkende Ogen Quotes

#1. Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

Nelson Mandela

#2. FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

William Blake

#4. You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

Sarah Vowell

#5. During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

#6. I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

Susan Orlean

#7. Take a thousand soldiers. Four hundred will stand in a fight but do nothing. Two hundred will run given the chance. Another hundred will get confused. That leaves three hundred you can count on. Your task in commanding that thousand is all down to knowing where to put that three hundred.

Steven Erikson

#8. Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Kenneth Tynan

#9. It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

Charles Frazier

#10. Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

David Boreanaz

#11. There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Aidan Quinn

#12. There are three principles in a man's being and life:
The principle of thought, the principle of speech,
and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict
between me and my fellow-men is that I do not
say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Martin Buber

#13. Aye, it's true. I've spent long years seeking a wee dove to adore. But not because I wished for one to tend. I've wanted one with whom I could soar.

Veronica Wolff

#14. Take what you need, and find solace where you can.

Crispin Sartwell

#15. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.

Gil Bailie