Fumsi Quotes & Sayings

Nurse Leatheran has been giving me valuable information about the various members of the expedition. Incidentally I have learnt a good deal - about the victim. And the victim, mademoiselle, is very often the clue to the mystery. — Agatha Christie

...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon focusing all attention on the formation of the modern world and 'modernity.' By directing attention to a time period rather than to a region, Western scholars can place the West at the center of any discussion, and subordinate backward Asia to Western history, without explicitly condemning Asian cultures and polities or arguing for a narrowly Eurocentric view of the world. Nevertheless, modern history is effectively a racist pursuit that not only elevates white Westerners above all others, but also actively denigrates Asian history. — Peter A. Lorge

In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.' — Anne Boleyn

When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel. — Mark Driscoll

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — Nicholas Johnson

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts. — Juho Kusti Paasikivi

the human tendency to treat big events as fundamentally different from smaller ones. — Ed Catmull

You'll never be ready. Some things you just have to deal with head on and see what happens. You can't save anything if you don't save yourself first. — Amy Matayo

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived. — Sophia Lee

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once. — Jana Deleon

I hate that for a few hours I got a taste of a damned happy new life; then you snatched it all away. But — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Georgie was the good in me. Without her, I was sure I'd sink into the darkness of my mind and never emerge. She gave me the light to keep coming back. To crawl away from the evil I was surrounded by, the nightmares, the coldness, and she made me human again." Deck — Nashoda Rose