Cinquenta In English Quotes & Sayings

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government. — Marianne Williamson

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion. — Edna Ferber

Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in. — David Zucker

So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides ... And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting. — Allison Mackie

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi

I love you, Mac. And I'm never going to leave you like your mother left your father. I'm never going to break your heart like your mother broke your father's I'm in this thing until the end. — Julie Ann Walker

Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body. — Tayari Jones

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will. — John Adams

But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce. — Ken Follett

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. — Jose Ramos-Horta

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that. — Shaquille O'Neal

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. — Arthur Helps

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves. — Thierry Henry