Cargas Quotes & Sayings

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. — Fay Weldon

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. — Christopher Hitchens

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead. — Robert D. Kaplan

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won't find yourself begging others for scraps of love. — Lysa TerKeurst

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. — Abraham Lincoln

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews. — Mardy Grothe

History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history. — Edward Hallett Carr

Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space — W.S. Gilbert

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected. — Susan Cain

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said. — Christopher Hitchens

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do. — Mason Cooley

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play. — Tim Hudson

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives — Neal A. Maxwell

I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two. — Stephen Lang