Addhandler Quotes & Sayings

I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. — Charles De Gaulle

My goal was to get through the day as fast as possible. I worked fast because I wanted to be done. I wanted to be done because I wanted to go home to my nest and drink. — Augusten Burroughs

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf

One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that - well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but - well - some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope'
'No,' she said smiling, 'no.'
'It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.
Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it. — Vladimir Nabokov

It seems whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving some thug nation comes along and decides we're a pushover all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up mighty anxiously to be sure the flag is still waving over us. Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy — George M. Cohan

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others. — Bill Crawford

The greater the man the greater the courtesy. — Alfred The Great

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way. — Stevie Wonder

I know you kids are angry, because the world isn't fair. Well, get over it, because it's never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that's the way it is. And they aren't going to give it up - to you or to me. And you can't blame them for it because if you had it, you wouldn't give it to them, either. But fighting each other isn't going to fix anything. All it's going to do is let everybody go on insisting that black and Hispanic kids are ignorant and violent. That's perfect. It's easy. If you're ignorant and violent, people who don't like you can kick you out of school or put you in jail. And it's you own fault. — LouAnne Johnson

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism". — Tony Blair

Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to 'hasten the inevitable,' not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion. — Daniel Dennett

... life isn't a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ... — Renee Paule