Girardinia Quotes & Sayings

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. — Leo Tolstoy

In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day. — Steve Ballmer

Without spending increasingly longer periods of time reading, they won't build endurance as readers, either. Students need time to read and time to be readers. — Donalyn Miller

Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn't taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known. She wasn't like any other woman and never would be. And he would never be satisfied with another woman now that he'd touched her.

Sebastian — Ally Broadfield

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. — Will.i.am

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. — Ted Cruz

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. — Werner Herzog

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small. — Jim Rohn

But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was only one small probelm. It wasn't Frank I reached for, deep in the night, waking out of sleep. It wasn't his smooth, lithe body that walked my dreams a roused me so that I came awake moist and gasping, my heart pounding from the half-remembered touch. But I would never touch that man again.
"Jamie," I whispered. "Oh Jamie. — Diana Gabaldon

But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their — Adam Smith

She gestured to the nether regions of the body. "For both of us to examine the wound will be more thorough."
"You might be comfortable with such an examination," he said, cutting her a slanted glance, "but I don't believe that I am prepared to witness your comfort with it."
"Coming from the man I encountered in the stable last night, I don't believe that for a moment."

-Ravenna & Vitor — Katharine Ashe

My heart swells," she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, "Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm."
"They only like to give it," he drawled. — Julia Quinn