Caleja Nelson Quotes & Sayings

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it ... All about him was safe. — Naomi Mitchison

These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans. — Edward Gibbon

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage. — Maya Angelou

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age. — Brad Gilbert

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush. — Mike Huckabee

Idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak. — James Davison Hunter

Before the war, a white man named Jonathan Edwards came to Stockbridge to teach my people about sin, but I doubt very much he could see sin in this. You defended yourself against a man who would otherwise have killed you and your friends. Perhaps you feel no regret because your spirit knows you did what was right. — Pamela Clare

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such — Robert A. Heinlein

Time is not a road - it is a room. — John Fowles

I don't cut deep-I don't want to kill the tree. I carve her name carefully on the trunk, thinking, as I always do, of when I held her hand in mine to teach her to write. — Ally Condie

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon! — Seneca The Younger

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much. — Eydie Gorme

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. — Rabindranath Tagore

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs
as who has not?
of human love, God's love alone is left. — James Baldwin

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that. — O.J. Simpson