Barbados Flag Quotes & Sayings

Insist on your cup of stars. — Shirley Jackson

In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don't like to do. — Mary Kay Ash

I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up. — Pauline Trigere

He took a quick breath, and his voice dropped. "You've no notion of the effect you have on me"
The words gave a hard tug to her belly. She closed her eyes and swallowed. "If by effect, you mean finding yourself in unchartered waters, wondering whether you are coming or going ... " She stared at his shirt, watching his breath hitch. "Then I fear you have the same effect on me, my lord. — Kristen Callihan

And each and every one, it seems, falls to stagnation, and in that stagnation evil men rise, through greed or lust for power. Like canker buds, they find their way in any government, slipping through seams in the well-intended laws, coaxing the codes to their advantage, finding their treasures and securing their well-being at the expense of all others, and ever blaming the helpless, who have no voice and no recourse. To the laborers they cry, "Beware the leech!" and the leech is the infirm, the elderly, the downtrodden. So do they deflect and distort reality itself to secure their wares, and yet, they are never secure, for this is the truest rhyme of history, that when the theft is complete, so will the whole collapse, and in that collapse will fall the downtrodden and the nobility alike. — R.A. Salvatore

European countries unresistingly submitted to the introduction of general military service
i.e., to a state of slavery involving a degree of humiliation and submission incomparably worse than any slavery of the ancient world. — Leo Tolstoy

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

It was starting, starting. No. It was ending. He was ending. This was the landscape of his personal apocalypse. — Maggie Stiefvater

We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come. — James A. Michener

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. — Tony Snow

the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone. — Julia Cameron

I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence. — Robert D. Hales

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off. — Jenny Eclair

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. — Yusuf Islam