Arnold Balais Quotes & Sayings

Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow will not be separated by the glory of happiness. Love — Kahlil Gibran

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. — Hakeem Olajuwon

If I didn't want you so much," he said in a deadly purr, "I'd let you keep fucking me with your gaze, but you make me impatient. — Jeaniene Frost

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going. — Art Linkletter

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. — Zaha Hadid

I held his hand tighter and still squeezing I leant across and kissed his lips, the lips that apologised for his huff as they lovingly connected with mine, and I strained to keep at least one eye on the road. — Nicci Greene

We're just floating in space trying to figure out what it means to be human. — John Corey Whaley

Virtually everything inside me had spilled out and been lost. I was completely new, but I was also completely empty. I had to fill in that blank, little by little. With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I — Haruki Murakami

At last the armies clashed at one strategic point, They slammed their shields together, pike scraped pike With the grappling strength of fighters armed in bronze And their round shields pounded, boss on welded boss, And the sound of struggle roared and rocked the earth. The Iliad, Book 4 — Rick Atkinson

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on. — Ronnie Barker

Bosnia is known as the powder keg of Yugoslavia, which itself is known as the powder keg of the Balkans, which in turn is reputed to be the powder keg of Europe. I would like to lengthen the list a bit by noting that Slobodan Milosevic was the powder keg of Bosnia. He is also one of the most extraordinary men you could hope to meet in your lifetime, a Halley's Comet of dictators, appearing once or twice a century.

p. 199 — Peter Maas

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing. — Ian Smith