Curule Aedile Quotes & Sayings

Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We're going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and - — Samuel R. Delany

As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation. — Mitt Romney

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. — Nicolas Chamfort

That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself. — Nicholas Of Cusa

Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind. — Fernando Pessoa

Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said that this instance is remote or extreme. But, again, it is exactly true of the men in the streets around us. It is true that the negro slave, being a debased barbarian, will probably have either a human affection of loyalty, or a human affection for liberty. But the man we see every day
the worker in Mr. Gradgrind's factory, the little clerk in Mr. Gradgrind's office
he is too mentally worried to believe in freedom. — G.K. Chesterton

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome ... shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens. — Garrison Keillor

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber

Sally did the mature thing and stuck her tongue out at her best friend. — Quinn Loftis

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? — Charles De Gaulle

It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child. — Douglas Abrams

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem? — Bill Keller