Elogio Da Quotes & Sayings

If I have to bet, I am going to bet on those lakes. I am going to bet on the basic decency that is still at the core of this community. I am going to bet on that decency expanding to embrace the people it has left out and behind, and on that embrace being reciprocated. Not because anything is "inevitable" but because I met too many people applying hope. It — Thomas L. Friedman

The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy. Its an insidious progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line. — Marcus Luttrell

Man is divided into two categories; men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example.) — Ron Paul

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of ... in different cultures or whatever. — Jim Broadbent

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me. — Mike Tyson

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. — Elliott Erwitt

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time. — Jonas Mekas

You know the saying about how revenge tastes better cold? Well, it tastes just as good warm. — Anita Diamant

The extravagant side of Mohammed bin Laden's nature made itself evident when it came to women. Islam permits a man four wives at a time, and divorce is a simple matter, at least for a man, who only needs to declare, "I divorce you." Before his death, Mohammed bin Laden officially had fathered fifty-four children from twenty-two wives. The total number of wives he procured is impossible to determine, since he would often "marry" in the afternoon and divorce that night. An assistant followed behind to take care of any children he might have left in his wake. He also had a number of concubines, who stayed in the bin Laden compound if they bore him children. "My father used to say that he had fathered twenty-five sons for the jihad," his seventeenth son, Osama, later remembered. — Lawrence Wright