Svenja Van Quotes

#1. As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Mary Higgins Clark

#2. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Stewart Udall

#3. When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

W. Edwards Deming

#4. I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.

Eyvind Kang

#5. Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

Larisa Kuznetsova

#6. Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.

Darren Hardy

#7. For the oath taken by the members of the S.S. differed from the military oath sworn by the soldiers in that it bound them only to Hitler, not to Germany.

Hannah Arendt

#8. There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

Volkmar Sigusch

#9. When your parents turn you in to the Juvenile Authority - and they will - I will not shed a single tear for you, Connor Lassiter.

Neal Shusterman

#10. If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.

Boris Johnson

#11. IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

Spencer Johnson

#12. The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

Anais Nin

#13. I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

Robert Gottlieb