Espanha Pontos Quotes & Sayings

The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ... — Isoroku Yamamoto

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war. — Nadia Hashimi

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind? — Sydney J. Harris

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. — George Eliot

If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies. — William H. Ginsburg

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed. — Anna Leonowens

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future? — Abraham Lincoln

Gustave's last years are arid and solitary. He — Julian Barnes

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor. — Shooter Jennings