Bram van Velde Quotes

To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.

Bram van Velde

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• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
  • Courage
  • Voice

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Children
  • Integrity

• I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Envy

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Control

• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  

  Bjork
  • Hand
  • Hunting

• I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
  • Sunshine

• I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Christian

• The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Long
  • Women
  • Think

• If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Promise

• To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Force