Backstabbers Being Snakes Quotes & Sayings

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") — William S. Wilson

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives. — Richard Doetsch

I'm concerned about myself, but I'm less concerned about 'only myself'. — Mohith Agadi

We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa," said Will. "Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death. So he must live." He lowered his arm, his sleeve bloody. "It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only - "
"Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away," Magnus said.
"I want more than that," said Will. "You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created. — Cassandra Clare

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up. — Lenny Kravitz

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness. — Sri Chinmoy

It was the way your lip curled on the word "promise" that makes me uncomfortable. There are only three other people in my life that have ever used that word, and they are all strangers now. — Nikita Gill

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist. — Maurice Merleau Ponty