Cartago Quotes & Sayings

It isn't about the welfare check. It never was.
It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or lack of family planning. All of these are inherent in the disaster, but the purposefulness with which babies make babies in places like West Baltimore goes far beyond accident and chance, circumstance and misunderstanding. It's about more than the sexual drives of adolescents, too, though that might be hard to believe in a country where sex alone is enough of an argument to make anyone do just about anything.
In Baltimore, a city with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, the epidemic is, at root, about human expectation, or more precisely, the absence of expectation. — David Simon

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."
"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. — Antonia Fraser

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean. — Larry Gelbart

We as in us living on this planet called Earth does not mean we own it, us creating stuff technically does not mean we invent'd this. — N.a.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Those girls were there because someone told them they were 'beautiful,' but in high fashion, beautiful isn't enough. — Lady Gaga

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party. — Thomas E. Mann

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl Von Clausewitz

A soft knock sounded. Amaranthe feared Sicarius had come to collect her for another round of training, but he didn't usually bother knocking. Or being constrained by door locks. — Lindsay Buroker

Ethan got some books out of an old trunk. They were history books, some passed down from his great-grandfather Tom through his grandfather Jeb and father Andrew. Ethan expected that he'd pass them on to his own child, one day. History and family trees had always been very important to the Fortner family. — C.G. Faulkner

And, talking about the God of Love, Eros, who had grown up from the cute angelic Cupid with his ten colourful darts & golden bow, now wanted to be the God of True Love. He locked himself in embrace with his lovely wife, Psyche, all day & night, since, as he put it, Psyche was the Soul, & he, Eros, was the Body. And thus, Body & Soul should always be together. And he had, accordingly, set his golden bow & quiver of colourful darts aside. — Nicholas Chong

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. — Margaret Halsey

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. — Guy Kawasaki