Dernier Crossword Quotes & Sayings

How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'
Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile.
We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us. — Barack Obama

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be. — Andy Stanley

Friendship on the contrary is enjoyed in proportion to our desire: since it is a matter of the mind, with our souls being purified by practising it — Michel De Montaigne

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go. — Morgan Matson

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman

Life is a stage, that we all have to go through! — Ari Joseph

But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out by the noise of our beating hearts, screaming at us that we were, after all, creatures of flesh and blood. — Dexter Palmer

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works. — George MacDonald

Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something. — Bobby Jindal