Rico Verhoeven Quotes

#1. All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.

Philip Yancey

#2. The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Karl Liebknecht

#3. Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

David Beckham

#4. To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.

Joe Biden

#5. A gorgeous, sensual, Spanish god. That's what he looked like to me.

Karina Halle

#6. This wasn't a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word "gaudy" sound sweet and demure by contrast.

Courtney Milan

#7. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

Brandon Mull

#8. Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Heather Graham

#10. When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

Elizabeth George