Decembrist Quotes & Sayings

I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve. — George S. Clason

Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here. — Michelle Obama

$16 billion in complex securities whose value ultimately turned on the ability of a Las Vegas stripper with five investment properties, or a Mexican strawberry picker with a single $750,000 home, to make rapidly rising interest payments. — Michael Lewis

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing. — Lea Seydoux

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. — Joseph Goebbels

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal. — Charles Fort

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it. — Keira Knightley

I believe we could both maintain growth and increase, both in quality and quantity — Sunday Adelaja

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception. — Christopher Langan

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings. — John Galliano

I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit. — Tom Petty

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model
all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food. — Thomas Sowell

Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We've lost this knowledge as a culture. — Luis J. Rodriguez