Angolas Civil War Quotes & Sayings

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded — Heinrich Von Kleist

Heidegger's parlamblings on 'Nothing' and 'Not' and 'the Nothing that Nothings' were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy. — John Gardner

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to. — Ally Sheedy

In the year 1819 an act of Parliament was proposed limiting the labor of children nine years of age to four-teen hours a day. This would seem to have been a reasonable provision, likely to have won the approval of Christ; yet the bill was violently opposed by Christian employers, backed by Christian clergymen. It was interfering with freedom of contract, and therefore with the will of Providence; it was anathema to an established Church, whose function was in 1819, as it is in 1918, and was in 1918 B. C., to teach the divine origin and sanction of the prevailing economic order. — Upton Sinclair

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare. — Isabelle Huppert

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again) — Louis Jordan

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. — Menander

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee. — Bert Blyleven

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. — Charles Kingsley

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500. — Steven D. Levitt

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them. — Pope John Paul II

Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever. — Dervla Murphy