Carreta Quotes & Sayings

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. — Leon Battista Alberti

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit. — Jane Goodall

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers. — Stephen Colbert

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it. — Alexander Ovechkin

The public forgot Bofors, soon they will forget this as well — Sushilkumar Shinde

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith

The New York Times denounces America's "dancing with dictators." Guilty as charged. Dance we do. And without apology. With no more apology than Franklin Roosevelt offered when he reportedly said of Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza, "He may be a son of a bitch. But he's our son of a bitch."

Roosevelt was a grownup. He made choices. He slew his dragons one at a time. He understood that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. He understood that in an international arena populated by sons of bitches, you make your distinctions, or you die. — Charles Krauthammer

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust. — David Aylward

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. — Arnold Palmer

The facts of life are conservative. — Margaret Thatcher

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer. — Glenn Roeder