Verstraeten Michel Quotes

#1. Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Sophocles

#2. Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

James Joyce

#3. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Lewis Thomas

#4. The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Philip Schaff

#5. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

#6. Moping around with sadness and sorrow ... what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However, i'll live and stand on my own two legs. If we are going to die one day, wouldnt it be better to have no regrets

Black Butler

#7. I don't want to die an old lady.

Edith Piaf

#8. Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.

Ayn Rand

#9. You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

N.E. Bode

#10. If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kid's body is just plain babbling.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#11. [On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

Ella Fitzgerald

#12. Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

David W. Orr

#13. Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti