Rijswijk Quotes

#1. The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.

Joseph O'Neill

#2. Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

Beth Moore

#3. If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

John Claypool

#4. The pure and simple truth, it has been said, is rarely pure and never simple.

Ben Mercer

#5. I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

Max Planck

#8. Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#9. We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

Jo Nesbo

#10. Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.

Jean Piaget

#11. Are you out of your candy wrapper?

Polly Shulman

#12. Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

Rex Stout

#13. If you're not tough enough to take on a fight, your best defense is to avoid initiating one".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa