Verstraete Middelkerke Quotes

#1. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?

Thomas L. Friedman

#3. You can create your ideal job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. May the wind carry her spirit gently May the Fire release her soul, May the Water cleanse her, may the Earth receive her, May the Goddess take her in her arms and guide her to rebirth.

Starhawk

#6. Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

Miranda Hart

#7. Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Antoine Rivarol

#8. All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God ...
Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

Dan Brown

#9. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!

Boethius

#10. The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Millar

#11. Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#12. We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

David Lilienthal

#13. Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.

R. Scott Bakker

#14. This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

Donald Miller