Belize Independence Day Quotes & Sayings

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. — Bill Gates

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful — Thomas R. Williams

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life. — Vladimir Potanin

While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers often come closer to clulessness ... It is no surprise that no one understood Blake, but other poets fared not much better ... Coleridge's 'Christabel' was 'the standing enigma which puzzles the curiosity of literary circles. What is it all about?', while another reviewer asked about Shelley, 'What, in the name of wonder on one side, and of common sense on the other, is the meaning of this metaphysical rhapsody about the unbinding of Prometheus?'. Even Keats was condemned for 'his frequent obscurity and confusion of language' and his 'unintelligible quaintness'. Byron, never to be outdone, boasted in 'Don Juan' that not only did he not understand many of his fellow poets, he did not understand himself either: 'I don't pretend that I quite understand / My own meaning when I would be very fine.' ... — Andrew Elfenbein

And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger. — Raymond Chen

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed. — Condoleezza Rice

We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own ... [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific. — Lord Kelvin

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves. — Robert Pozen