Willem Schouten Quotes

#1. He drove the car back through the night to Paris. The hedges and orchards of Normandy flew past him. The moon hung oval and large in the misty sky. The ship was forgotten. Only the landscape remained. The landscape, the smell of hay and ripe apples, the silence and the deep peace of the inevitable

Erich Maria Remarque

#2. Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

William Cowper

#3. The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

Robert Fulghum

#4. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

#5. I have several children - seven, to be exact - too many children for an atheist, certainly. Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say, Shut up! I just got here myself. Who do you think I am - Methuselah? You think I like the news of the day any better than you do? You're wrong.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. What do people who don't drink do on such occasions? Face the facts perhaps. But facing a fact is one thing, and overcoming it is another. Cognac was going to overcome the facts: overcome Edna's willed hardness and overcome my lack of suitable words and actions.

Waguih Ghali

#7. The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see.

Robin Sacredfire

#8. Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.

Tim Hecker

#9. I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

Abigail Disney

#10. Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

Albert Schweitzer

#11. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass