Barusa Quotes & Sayings

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult. — Margaret Thatcher

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties. — Laozi

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up
and we are gone. — Edward Young

So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him. — Elena Ferrante

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out. — Michel De Montaigne

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death. — Phyllis Diller

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. — Walter Scott

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first. — Usain Bolt

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. — H.G.Wells

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. — Samuel Adams

If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen. — Leisa Rayven

Love is the greatest self. — Lailah Gifty Akita