Bloodless Coup Quotes & Sayings

Lord our God, restore us again by the repose of sleep after the fatigue of our daily work, so that, continually renewed by your help, we may serve you in body and soul. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. The Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. AMEN — Uniersalis Publishing

I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost — Wayne W. Dyer

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. — Mark Edwards

Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place. — Guy Deutscher

When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard — Patrick DeWitt

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately. — Robert Silverberg

My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing. — Douglas Black

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings. — Peg O'Connor

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. — William Shakespeare

Give us enough but with a sparing hand. — Edmund Waller

Don't ever brag about the funds(money) of your parents because they might leave wuth it when their time comes instead strive to make yours and have your personal bragging rights — Chuka Osa-Afiana

The truth is, I don't know what will happen across the entire world in the coming decades, and neither does anyone else. Not everyone, though, shares my reticence. A Web search for the text string "the coming war" returns two million hits, with completions like "with Islam," "with Iran," "with China," "with Russia," "in Pakistan," "between Iran and Israel," "between India and Pakistan," "against Saudi Arabia," "on Venezuela," "in America," "within the West," "for Earth's resources," "over climate," "for water," and "with Japan" (the last dating from 1991, which you would think would make everyone a bit more humble about this kind of thing). Books with titles like The Clash of Civilizations, World on Fire, World War IV, and (my favorite) We Are Doomed boast a similar confidence. Who knows? Maybe they're right. My aim in the rest of this chapter is to point out that maybe they're wrong. — Steven Pinker

I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time. — Lauren Beukes

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual. — Terence McKenna