Avidez Significado Quotes & Sayings

The problem with Christians today is that no one wants to kill them anymore. — Jamie Buckingham

A recurrent theme in Kissinger's early writing is the historical ignorance of the typical American decision-maker. Lawyers, he remarked in 1968, are the "single most important group in Government, but they do have this drawback - a deficiency in history." For Kissinger, history was doubly important: as a source of illuminating analogies and as the defining factor in national self-understanding. Americans might doubt history's importance, but, as Kissinger wrote, "Europeans, living on a continent covered with ruins testifying to the fallibility of human foresight, feel in their bones that history is more complicated than systems analysis."
-Foreign Affairs, The Meaning of Kissinger: A Realist Reconsidered, By Niall Ferguson — Niall Ferguson

As a living entity, the progressives reasoned, government had to evolve and adapt in response to changing circumstances. — Ronald J. Pestritto

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else. — Jim Caviezel

since they had met, and repeatedly — Jane Austen

I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising! — John Godfrey Saxe

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. — Bobby Sherman

Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. — Piper Kerman

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. — Philip Schaff

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed. — Heraclitus

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed. — Catharine MacKinnon

She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to do something with it. — Nanette Vonnegut

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache. — George Tillman Jr.