Gerardina Jacoba Quotes & Sayings

Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most ... A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not ... Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman? — Brian Ruckley

Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental; — Gunter Grass

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars. — Harrison Ford

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head. — Henry James

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders. — William Henry Vanderbilt

Words have no power... which you do not give them. — Bruce McAllister

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. — Prince Philip

For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action. — Seth

To me, America is just another market. — Quentin Tarantino

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions. — Voltaire

The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions. — Susanne Katherina Langer

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. — Bob Marley