Top 14 Vlissingen Quotes
#1. It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.
Ayana Mathis
#2. Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
Dick Thornburgh
#4. The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
Jim Goad
#5. You must be not only present in the body, but watchful in mind, if you would avail yourself of the fleeting opportunity. Accordingly, look about you for the opportunity; if you see it, grasp it, and with all your energy and with all your strength devote yourself to this task
Seneca.
#6. I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.
Davey Havok
#7. Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.
Mara Wilson
#8. She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.
Maryanne O'Hara
#9. What makes journalist so fascinating, and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: 'What's he like?
John F. Kennedy
#10. Walk without a stick into the darkest woods. Believe that the fairy tale is true.
Cheryl Strayed
#11. We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)
Max Hastings
#13. And you love to read, you love to escape, right?
James Ellroy
#14. Will not taste death" means exactly what it says. Our principal confusion with it is that we persistently misinterpret everything he says as being about bodies, since we think we ourselves are bodies, and in our delusion we do not hear that he addresses us as spirit.
Rogier Fentener Van Vlissingen