Durward Sobek Quotes & Sayings

and turned into a grazing-ground for superannuated — George Orwell

We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities. — Anthony Romero

I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end ... without Rangiku having to cry. — Tite Kubo

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. — Frank Herbert

Education is an asset no man can take away. — George Eliot

But as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry. — Charles Bukowski

A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely. — Ronald Reagan

His pale skin turned a greenish cast. A verbal kick in the nuts did that to a man.' (Carlos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly ... yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to. — Sophia Loren

In an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree. — K.J. Parker

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. — Linus Torvalds

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them. — Philip Schaff

Oh Florence, Florence, patroness
of the lovely tyrannicides!
Where the tower of the Old Palace
pierces the sky
like a hypodermic needle,
Perseus, David and Judith,
lords and ladies of the Blood,
Greek demi-gods of the Cross,
rise sword in hand
above the unshaven
formless decapitation
of the monsters, tubs of guts,
mortifying chunks for the pack.
Pity the monsters!
Pity the monsters!
Perhaps, one always took the wrong side -
Ah, to have known, to have loved
too many David and Judiths!
My heart bleeds for the monster.
I have seen the Gorgon.
The erotic terror
of her helpless, big-bosomed body
lay like slop.
Wall-eyed, staring the despot to stone,
her severed head swung
like a lantern in the victor's hand. — Robert Lowell