Bortis Migma Quotes & Sayings

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. — Arthur Koestler

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters. — Edgar Guest

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die. — Hampton Sides

each wound a whisper of promise. you can own me because now I know I own you give me more and I'll give you everything — Sierra Simone

As a mental exercise I like to plan the murder of friends and colleges. — Sherlock

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits. — Jonathan Balcombe

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one. — Stellan Skarsgard

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. — Katie Nolan

When I'm home, I'm relaxed. — Marion Jones

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more. — Bam Margera

Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been. — Sheila Kohler

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech. — Thorstein Veblen