Cartina Sicilia Quotes & Sayings

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege. — Catharine Beecher

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. — Chinua Achebe

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. — Sally Quinn

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper. — Steve Vai

I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people. — Antonya Nelson

Dr. Atkins continued, "Sometimes silence is a way to cover emotion or to hide true feelings. Sometimes the bridge between emotion and language is so vast or so scary that it's just easier not to cross it. — Melanie Dawn

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap. — Jacqueline Winspear

Nothing was made in Trinidad. — V.S. Naipaul

Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations. — Neal Boortz

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures. — Marcel Proust

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We tend to forget that unity is, at best, morally neutral and often a source of irrationality and groupthink. Rampaging mobs are unified. The Mafia is unified. Marauding barbarians bent on rape and pillage are unified. Meanwhile, civilized people have disagreements, and small-d democrats have arguments. Classical liberalism is based on this fundamental insight, which is why fascism was always antiliberal. Liberalism rejected the idea that unity is more valuable than individuality. For fascists and other leftists, meaning and authenticity are found in collective enterprises - of class, nation, or race - and the state is there to enforce that meaning on everyone without the hindrance of debate. — Jonah Goldberg

Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move. — Gudjon Bergmann