Amethyst Crystal Gem Quotes & Sayings

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. — Dexter Filkins

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her. — Maripol

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans. — Gary Neville

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society — Frederick Osborn

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside — Pascal Bruckner

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff. — Natalie Cole

Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud. — Dick Francis

Never in all my life and in all my years of living in a world of silence have I wanted to hear something as much as I want to hear her sing right now. I want to hear her so bad it physically hurts. — Colleen Hoover

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein

Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. — Merlin Mann

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. — Alan Lightman