Egolu Velet Quotes & Sayings

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves. — C.L.R. James

People like to talk about clean slates. But the only truly clean slate is a new one. The rest are gray from whatever's been written on them before. — J.P. Delaney

You have to trust God even when you don't get what you want. — Rick Warren

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. — Johnny Rivers

I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record. — Thom Yorke

I am a writer, period! — Anita Sax

I just sort of slid into it, like you'd go for a walk in the woods and fall into a crevasse and wind up in a cave full of rubies and emeralds. — Garrison Keillor

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time. — Chris Hadfield

In a successful launch, the author believes that buying their book is actually a good thing for people to do. — Tim Grahl

In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang. — Gayle Forman

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. — April Smith

Of science and logic he chatters,
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I'm sure he's a talented man. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed