Gaddama Quotes & Sayings

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed. — Benjamin Cardozo

It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag. — Stephen Kinzer

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering. — Jill Greenberg

life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once. — Irma Joubert

These be the sort" - she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan - "These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings. — Rudyard Kipling

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there. — Tyson Fury

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing. — Lucille Clifton

Lord, but why don't you go to this lawyer yourself and tell him the whole business in private? They say he was invited from Petersburg for three thousand. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Virtue was its own reward. — Louisa May Alcott

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior. — Tim Murphy

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. — Marabel Morgan

There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. — James A. Millward

The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean ... no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me ... and my lipstick. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. — Nicole Krauss