Ecard Friend Quotes & Sayings

Though these young men unhappily fail to
understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of
all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of
their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply
tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set
before them as their goal
such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength
of many of them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day. — Gloria Steinem

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. — Brendan Behan

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity. — Giacomo Casanova

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. — Kevin Rudd

Whoever it was - he was one of the most vicious sons of bitches who ever lived. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey

The way I see it, there are three reasons never to be unhappy. First, you were born. This in itself is a remarkable achievement. — Bill Bryson

Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it. — Frank A. Clark