Empoignade Quotes & Sayings

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character. — Ana Ivanovic

Have a chocolate-covered raisin," he said.
"They look like rat droppings," said the Chair.
The Dean peered at them in the gloom.
"So that's it," he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot. — Terry Pratchett

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. — Paul Bryant

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that. — Boris Johnson

Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again. — C.P. Cavafy

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread. — Seth Godin

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well — Bernard Levin

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice. — George W. Bush