Briggans Mckinley Quotes & Sayings

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous. — Henry David Thoreau

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' ... after they've paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. — Lord Salisbury

There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume that their teachers will regard those topics as 'stupid.' No area of life is stupid to someone who takes it seriously. If you follow your affections you will write well and will engage your readers. — William Zinsser

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. — Kahlil Gibran

Czechoslovak government and the pro-Nazi leaders of the country's Sudeten German minority, Hitler demanded that the German population be given "self-determination," that is, autonomy within the Czechoslovak republic. The British and French governments feared that these demands, following close on the German annexation of Austria, would be a first step in Hitler's eventual dismembering of Czechoslovakia and its absorption into a greater Reich. — Debi Unger

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person. — Carrie Fisher