Tijden Nederlands Quotes

#1. Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#2. You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

Milton Friedman

#3. The sun,
the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man
burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

Charles Dickens

#4. Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#5. I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

Mickey Kaus

#6. It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.

Jim Finks

#7. I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

Mariel Hemingway

#8. There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#9. What's celebrate?" Eddie asked.
"That's when you can't get no dame," said Mack.
"I thought it was a kind of a party," said Jones.
A silence fell on the room.

John Steinbeck

#10. I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

Amartya Sen