Barbary Slave Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate — Elizabeth Scott

When you are massively outgunned, you do not fire and give away your position. — Stan Goff

You can't fight destiny - taunt it, yes, but to fight it will only consume you and, in the end, destiny always wins. — Amelia Hutchins

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong. — Alexander Hamilton

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there ... but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power. — Tony Robbins

You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter. — Paulo Coelho

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. — Beth Gibbons

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone. — Nicholas Rodger