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Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. — Peter De Vries

I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always read enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism. — Peter De Vries

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful. — Peter De Vries

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. — Peter De Vries

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. — Gijs De Vries

People rarely do what they don't want to. — Peter De Vries

How to know Confidence
is how to know who you are.
Petra Hermans and Jos de Vries
Friends Forever
October 8, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise. — Gijs De Vries

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. — Peter De Vries

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. — Gijs De Vries

Deep down, he's shallow. — Peter De Vries

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. — Gijs De Vries

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. — Gijs De Vries

Count your blessings - not your troubles. — Hendrik De Vries

Looking closely at de Vries, he added, 'You are a very ugly man, Piter. Even with my disease, I'm still prettier than you. — Brian Herbert

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. — Gijs De Vries

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. — Gijs De Vries

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. — Gijs De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. — Gijs De Vries

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. — Peter De Vries

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? — Peter De Vries

Dead drunk and cold-sober, he wandered out into the garden in the cool of the evening, awaiting the coming of the Lord. — Peter De Vries

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk. — Gijs De Vries

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. — Peter De Vries

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. — Peter De Vries

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable. — Peter De Vries

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. — Gijs De Vries

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. — Gijs De Vries

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. — Peter De Vries

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. — Peter De Vries

Jos de Vries
U Are The Greatest Gift God Gave me
Petra — Petra Hermans

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex. — Peter De Vries

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. — Peter De Vries

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. — Peter De Vries

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. — Gijs De Vries

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot — Peter De Vries

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. — Peter De Vries

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity. — Peter De Vries

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up. — Peter De Vries

To trust someone's soul
is to love the emotions of his heart.
Petra — Petra Hermans

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. — Peter De Vries

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims. — Gijs De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. — Peter De Vries

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste. — Peter De Vries

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? — Peter De Vries

He never said I was welcome
Jos de Vries
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. — Gijs De Vries

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries

Are you pro- or anti-macassar? — Peter De Vries

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink. — Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle — Peter De Vries

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. — Peter De Vries

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... — Peter De Vries

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. — Gijs De Vries

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Peter De Vries

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries

Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. — Peter De Vries

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism. — Gijs De Vries

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. — Gijs De Vries

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally. — Gijs De Vries

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. — Peter De Vries

Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.'
'So am I,' de Vries said. — Brian Herbert

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear? — Peter De Vries

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. — Peter De Vries

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. — Gijs De Vries

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came. — Peter De Vries

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. — Gijs De Vries

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. — Gijs De Vries

We still lack a global definition of terrorism. — Gijs De Vries

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. — Peter De Vries

Write drunk; edit sober. — Peter De Vries

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. — Peter De Vries

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact. — Gijs De Vries

The wise and decent priest Jos de Vries
makes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Exercise is an unnatural act. — Peter De Vries

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you. — Peter De Vries

Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister. — Peter De Vries

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. — Gijs De Vries

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. — Peter De Vries