Amasa Back Trail Quotes & Sayings

What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. — Thucydides

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked. — Shusaku Endo

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic. — Gary Hume

Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears. — Paulo Coelho

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean. — Herbert A. Simon

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want. — Michael Flatley

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl ... She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life. — Felix Adler

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together. — Marnie Stern

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself. — Paulette Goddard

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective, ... — Preston Manning