Givanas Quotes & Sayings

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. — William Hazlitt

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. — Warren Buffett

There is something so sexy about a man so in control of himself and everything around him that it makes you just want to do things to him then watch as he loses control over you — Kitty Berry

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. — Frank Herbert

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
And so it is with science. — Richard Feynman

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt. — George W. Bush

Many a maiden,
With white feet dancing light as air,
Made happy music through the gloom. — Euripides

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints. — Pauline Quirke

...the postwar revolution in America's religious identity had its roots not in the foreign policy panic of the 1950s but rather in the domestic politics of the 1930s and early 1940s. Decades before Eisenhower's inaugural prayers, corporate titans enlisted conservative clergymen in an effort to promote new political arguments embodied in the phrase "freedom under God." As the private correspondence and public claims of the men leading this charge make clear, this new ideology was designed to defeat the state power its architects feared most - not the Soviet regime in Moscow, but Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration in Washington. — Kevin M. Kruse