Top 14 Van Valkenburg Quotes
#1. Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.
Meghan Daum
#2. Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
Mary Oliver
#3. Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
John Corrigan
#4. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck
#5. How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!
S.R. Crawford
#6. Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.
Arthur W. Pink
#7. I meant of course the whole portentous scrimmage of sex itself, the act of penetration which could lead a man to despair for the sake of a creature with two breasts and le croissant as the picturesque Levant slang has it.
Lawrence Durrell
#9. I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
Danai Gurira
#10. She didn't like the way he was right. How she listened. She wondered if there was any difference between how she listened to him and how Arin listened to his god.
Marie Rutkoski
#11. During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.
Napoleon Hill
#12. As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.
Mark Twain
#13. I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.
Paul Auster
#14. Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,' said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise. He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred;
Emily Bronte
