Barretas Quotes & Sayings

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015. — Pope Benedict XVI

Suddenly Adam (Upton) hated death just as much as he hated life, and now he had absolutely no idea how to unsolve that equation.

-- From my upcoming novel "Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School. — Jack Chaucer

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. — Napoleon Bonaparte

God, I miss you," she said. "Missed? Or miss?" "Miss." "But I'm right here," I said into her hair. "I miss you anyway. — Paula Garner

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for. — Jesse Ventura

My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. — Shel Silverstein

God is the shield of the nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. — Mort Walker

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. — John Caudwell

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. — George Soros