Carpet Bags Quotes & Sayings

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name. — Dinesh D'Souza

The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them. — Chinua Achebe

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost — Khaled Hosseini

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there. — Debasish Mridha

Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can't be seen. — Lene Fogelberg

Religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order. — Yuval Noah Harari

I'm from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge. — Cassandra Clare

There was so much unpleasantness in the workaday world. The last thing you ever wanted to do at night was go home and do the dishes. And just the idea that part of the weekend had to be dedicated to getting the oil changed and doing the laundry was enough to make those of us still full from lunch want to lie down in the hallway and force anyone dumb enough to remain committed to walk around us. It might not be so bad. They could drop food down to us, or if that was not possible, crumbs from their PowerBars and bags of microwave popcorn surely would end up within an arm's length sooner or later. The cleaning crews, needing to vacuum, would inevitably turn us on our sides, preventing bedsores, and we would make little toys out of runs in the carpet, which, in moments of extreme regression, we might suck on for comfort. — Joshua Ferris

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. — Malcolm X

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. — Jules Verne

Every once in a while in my discussions someone asks how I can believe in the Trinity. My answer is always the same. I would still be an agnostic if there was no Trinity, because there would be no answers. Without the high order of personal unity and diversity as given in the Trinity, there are no answers. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Sometimes you are the peanut to my butter and sometimes you are those annoying crumbs left over when someone makes toast. — Brenda Lochinger

I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction ... You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game. — Mercury Morris

Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first. — Shigeru Miyamoto