Atenean Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden ... — Marcus Garvey

What one cannot, another can. — William Davenant

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing. — Ingemar Stenmark

Those who die young, they are cheated," she said. "Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they're cheated because they don't know it's coming. They don't have time to move closer, to return home. When you know you're going to die, you try to be near the bones of your own people. You don't even think you have bones when you're young, even when you break them, you don't believe you have them. But when you're old, they start reminding you they're there. They start turning to dust on you, even as you're walking here and there, going from place to place. And this is when you crave to be near the bones of your own people. My children never felt this. They had to look death in the face, even before they knew what it was. Just like you did, no? — Edwidge Danticat

Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece. — Ice-T

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband

At some time or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thing humans had in common. — Jodi Picoult

The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service. — Ian Fleming