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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 Confidenceis 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
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
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
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
— Gijs 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
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 VriesU Are The Greatest Gift God Gave me
Petra — Petra Hermans
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
— 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
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
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
He never said I was welcomeJos de Vries
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
— Peter 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
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
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
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 Vriesmakes 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
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
— Peter De Vries