Devolder Electro Quotes & Sayings

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity. — Shashi Tharoor

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. — Lord Byron

For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely for the communication of friends. Masters of language, poets of long ages, have turned from the sheet that endures to the sheet that perishes, pushing aside the tea-tray, drawing close to the fire (for letters are written when the dark presses around a bright red cave), and addressed themselves the task of reaching, touching, penetrating the individual heart. — Virginia Woolf

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. — Tacitus

We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it. — Peter Kropotkin

was still working in the finance field for a high-tech company. The — R.A. Salvatore

We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ... — Mahesh Shekhar

For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. — John Milton

She liked soot, and heat, and grime, and she was beginning to realize, if she didn't actually like her aloneness, she was at least comforted by it. She should be grateful; she knew, she knew. She should be thrilled just to be alive. So why was it she preferred to expect nothing? — Alice Hoffman

...if you don't argue, you can't give in... — Franny Billingsley

I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex. — Ira Kaplan