Dilled Egg Quotes & Sayings

Which do you tend to focus on more - what you have or what's missing from your life? — Anthony Robbins

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions. — Benazir Bhutto

Rae!" I shove his shoulder. "You can't do that! You can't snoop about you through me!""Why not? How else were you going to repay me for this favor?" The corner of his mouth tips up. "Plus, wouldn't you ask her that?""Oh. My. God! That's not the point," I scold, but after a moment ask, "What did she say? — E.J. Mellow

She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones. — Dasa Drndic

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia

This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy. — Elizabeth McCracken

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. — Mother Teresa

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. — Ronald Reagan

What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere. — G. Edward Griffin

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it. — Ransom Riggs

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it. — Italo Calvino