Arrivent A Grand Quotes & Sayings

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. — Aaron Hill

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing? — Michael Jackson

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — Zora Neale Hurston

Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer. — Peter Sloterdijk

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice. — Rick Warren

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Whites were bright as fresh-fallen snow, yellow shone like gold, reds turned to flame, but the shadows were so black they looked like holes in the world. — George R R Martin

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it. — Christina Engela