Biaya Quotes & Sayings

If we do nothing ... and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing. — David Liss

There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man, — Salman Rushdie

Crucial element of Greek education. In the city-state of Sparta, the most extreme example of this focus, young boys considered weak at birth were abandoned to die. The rest were sent to grueling boot camps, where they were toughened into Spartan soldiers from an early age. Around the fifth century BC, some Greek city-states, most notably Athens, began to experiment with a new form of government. "Our constitution is called a democracy," the Athenian statesman Pericles noted in his funeral oration, "because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the — Fareed Zakaria

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy? — Gene Simmons

Innocence isn't something you should discard like an old shoe. It has a physical value - a passionate value - all its own." His frown deepening, he kept his gaze fixed on his leader's ears. "Innocence shouldn't be tarnished, it shouldn't be crushed. It should be made to bloom. I know." Those last two words were as much realization as assurance. "Getting innocence to bloom takes time, takes care and attention and expertise." His voice deepened. "It takes passion and desire, commitment and devotion to coax innocence from bud to bloom, to encourage it to unfurl into full flower without a single petal bruised. — Stephanie Laurens

Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her. — Tom Robbins

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. — Mignon McLaughlin

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. — William Sharp

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. — Emily Dickinson

A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that. — Robert Ferrigno

We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert. — Katy Evans

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky. — Ace Frehley

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. — Jack Kemp

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had. — Bessie Anderson Stanley

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. — John Tyndall