General Rieekan Quotes & Sayings

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. — Vladimir Horowitz

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example. — Vincent De Paul

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them. — Michelle Phan

Saddam Hussein was a CIA operative whom the American spy agency deployed in 1959 to kill the ruler of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem. When that assassination attempt failed, Saddam entered a CIA protection program in Egypt until his Baath Party, also supported by the CIA, seized power in 1963. At least 5,000 Iraqis, most of them student activists, were executed immediately by the Baathist regime. And so our Iraq War began. — Anonymous

Man, your horse can cuss." Percy shook his head. "He doesn't think much of Olympia." For — Rick Riordan

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. — Jay-Z

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor. — Bill O'Brien

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door. — David Mackay

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way. — Bella Thorne

We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street
look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers
it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves. — Markus Zusak