Chains Isabel Quotes & Sayings

No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, it is inexorable, it moves all things at once, and men of discrimination may understand it, predict it, benefit from it. — Neal Stephenson

I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us. — Hampton Sides

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment. — Eliot Paulina Sumner

To have a desire means to have dependency. — Dada Bhagwan

My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3 ... Anything with a motor, that was in my blood. — Lynsi Torres

As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. — Stephen Crane

I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good - we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage. — Carrie Vaughn

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like. — Molly Sims

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. — Ronald Reagan

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A.J.P. Taylor

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong ... The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts,
because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world. — Nema Al-Araby