Simon van der Meer Quotes
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
Simon van der Meer
Quotes to Explore
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
Dante Alighieri
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
Albert Camus
I thought it was interesting when Bill Clinton said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.
Terry Gross
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
Anthony de Jasay
People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.
Andi Zeisler
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
George V. Higgins
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.
Gary Gutting
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
Rebecca Solnit
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
Hilary Swank
Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
Taylor Negron
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Walter Alexander Raleigh
Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
William Butler Yeats
