Despidieron A Jorge Quotes & Sayings

All were indiscriminately condemned to death; but one out of three only were really executed. Ten cannon were placed on the drilling-ground, a prisoner fastened to each of their mouths, and five times were the ten guns fired, covering the plain with mutilated remains, in the midst of air tainted with the smell of burning flesh. These men, as M. de Valbezen says in his book called "Nouvelles Etudes sur les Anglais et l'lnde," nearly all died with that heroic indifference which Indians know so well how to preserve even in the very face of death. "No need to bind me, captain," said a fine young sepoy, twenty years of age, to one of the officers present at the execution; and as he spoke he carelessly stroked the instrument of death. "No need to bind me; I have no wish to run away." Such was the first and horrible execution, which was to be followed by so many others. At — Jules Verne

I like your hair. It smells good." Venomous buried his nose in it and sniffed. "I like how it feels against my scales when we are snug in our nest. It makes you look bigger than you are, and is a frightening threat display when you wake." "Maybe if you found me a brush the situation would be less frightful. — Penelope Fletcher

A guitar has moonlight in it. — James M. Cain

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay. — Tena Desae

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you. — Ernie J Zelinski

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated. — Fred Lowe Soper

It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp. — Paul Reiser

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now. — Mark Bittman

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin

The Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion. — Eugen Herrigel

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. — Mary Lyon