Van Beverhoudt Quotes

#1. If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

#2. In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

Michelle Dockery

#3. There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.

Jane Austen

#5. Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

Wilbur Smith

#6. It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Suze Orman

#7. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

Robert Winston

#9. I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Sam Harris

#11. All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.

Maza Dohta

#13. She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain.

Nikki Rowe