Ruud Lubbers Quotes

#1. It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

Sam Sheppard

#2. I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Ernest Renan

#4. Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

Peter Tork

#5. FIRST WATCHER Why do people die?
SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough ...

Fernando Pessoa

#6. Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune.

Julio Cortazar

#7. I didnt fall in love. I walked smack into it and then fell flat on my ass

Mia Asher

#8. Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light ... There really is no primary self anymore.

Frederick Lenz

#9. One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

#10. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard P. Feynman

#11. Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

#12. Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Louis Farrakhan