Babushkinis Quotes & Sayings

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. — Richard Cobden

Few men know all the ill they do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. — Guy Finley

Men are much more forcibly struck by those inequalities which exist within the circle of the same class, than with those which may be remarked between different classes. It is more easy for them to admit slavery, than to allow several millions of citizens to exist under a load of eternal infamy and hereditary wretchedness. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope. — Michelle Bachelet

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy. — Zoroaster

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. — Gerald Hausman

I considered several lies - then decided the truth was so outrageous that she might believe it more readily. I'm a godling, sent by an organization of godlings based in Shadow. We think you might be trying to destroy the world. Could you, perhaps, stop? — N.K. Jemisin

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical. — Valentino Rossi

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society. — Earl Warren

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart — Sharon Salzberg

So the Sumerians worshipped Enki, and the Babylonians, who came after the
Sumerians, worshipped Marduk, his son."
"Yes, sir. And whenever Marduk got stuck, he would ask his father Enki for
help. There is a representation of Marduk here on this stele
the Code of
Hammurabi. According to Hammurabi, the Code was given to him personally by
Marduk."
Hiro wanders over to the Code of Hammurabi and has a gander. The cuneiform
means nothing to him, but the illustration on top is easy enough to understand.
Especially the part in the middle:
"Why, exactly, is Marduk handing Hammurabi a one and a zero in this picture?"
Hiro asks.
"They were emblems of royal power," the Librarian says. "Their origin is
obscure. — Neal Stephenson