Zwanenburg 5 Quotes

#1. I'm used to hitch-hiking.

Joyce Banda

#2. Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. I'm not afraid of the darkness outside.
It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

Shelagh Delaney

#4. I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

Adrian McKinty

#5. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories.

Adam Christopher

#7. I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

Mary J. Blige

#8. As we took the court for the second half, I made a secret now to myself that I would never listen to a single thing that Mel Thompson said to me again. I would obey him and honor him and follow him, but I would not let him touch the core of me again. He was my coach, but I was my master.

Pat Conroy

#9. I wasn't sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn't hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race ...

Henny Youngman

#11. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Alan Dean Foster

#12. When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#13. However, I do not forget that everything is vanity, that I need art especially to count the days passing by.

Nicola Samori

#14. The Universe contains everything and nothing.
There is very little everything.
And more nothing than you can possibly imagine.

Terry Pratchett

#15. No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Haruki Murakami