Forcade Quotes & Sayings

There are children on the island who go barefoot all summer and wear feathers in their hair, the Volkswagen vans in which their parents arrived in the '70s turning to rust in the forest. Every year there are approximately two hundred days of rain. There's a village of sorts by the ferry terminal: a general store with one gas pump, a health-food store, a real-estate office, an elementary school with sixty students, a community hall with two massive carved mermaids holding hands to form an archway over the front door and a tiny library attached. The rest of the island is mostly rock and forest, narrow roads with dirt driveways disappearing into the trees. — Emily St. John Mandel

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. — Moshe Safdie

When accessorizing with chunky jewellery, choose bright colours that will stand out and bring alive your look. Statement pieces in bold colours can take your look to a different level and could even become a point of discussion. — Tena Desae

African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would say that French film is all European film, or Italian film is all European film. And in the same way that those places have different filmmakers that speak to different issues, all the countries in Africa have that too. — Elvis Mitchell

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry. — Akshay Vasu

it was one of the frickin' Golden Girls: — J.R. Ward

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. — Dave Davies

Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is. — Marion Jones

I hope you get a message of love and to continue the love and continue the spirit that I'm trying to transmit to you in a righteous sense to be in one unity. Rastafari! — Sizzla

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them — Saddam Hussein

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. — Henry Rollins