Bartolotta Gift Quotes & Sayings

and by mid-1781 it had caused him to conclude that France now sought a graceful exit from this stalemated war. Although he did not know it - nor would he ever learn the truth - his judgment was correct. Vergennes was prepared to consent to a long term truce uti possidetis; a diminutive United States would have existed, but Great Britain almost certainly would have retained Maine, northern Vermont, the Carolinas, Georgia, the tramontane West, and portions of New York, including New York City, and New England doubtless would be denied access to the Newfoundland fisheries.53 — John Ferling

If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me. — Aldo Leopold

It is a dangerous thing with brothers, to think that you could be as strong as them, or as wise as them, or as good as them. To believe that you could have been the same person, if only you hadn't gone a different way. To think that your parents raised you the same, and that your genes combined the same, and that the rest of what has happened in all your triumph ... or failure. — David Levithan

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. — Albert Einstein

Day didn't fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score. — Marie Lu

The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore — Boris Karloff

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure. — Pearl S. Buck

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy. — Thomas Jefferson

Does he know I can never feel anything for anyone ever again? — Steven Dos Santos

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality. — Ayn Rand

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature ... that's what takes a long time to learn. — Ron White

The distance between your dreams and reality is faith. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason. — Rajeev Bhargava