Clemency Letter Quotes & Sayings

Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The year might age, and cloudy
The lessening day might close,
But air of other summers
Breathed from beyond the snows,
And I had hope of those.
They came and were and are not
And come no more anew;
And all the years and seasons
That ever can ensue
Must now be worse and few.
So here's an end of roaming
On eves when autumn nighs:
The ear too fondly listens
For summer's parting sighs,
And then the heart replies. — A.E. Housman

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it. — Judy Blume

everything works out for the best and that every reverse in life carries the seeds of something better in the future. — Mary Beth Brown

Imagine a person created for you. Another being so in tune with you that their voice was the clearest you've ever heard in your mind. — Elizabeth Hunter

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin

Women have to be careful and teach their girls to be aware of their surroundings and never be alone with testosterone-crazed boys. A lot of little lives are being ruined and our society is to blame. Our kids are just searching and being curious but they are dangerously looking for the wrong kind of attention. — Pamela Anderson

The Porto Ricans at Harvard University believe that the crime was a horrible one and it should be punished, but death penalty would add to, and not detract from, its horrors," the Harvard students wrote. One of the student signatures on the letter was by Pedro Albizu y Campos who would later become a Puerto Rican promoter of ideals for the island's independence from the United States. — Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

In the gap between who we wish one day to be
and who we are at present,
must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. — Alain De Botton