Glimpses Crossword Quotes & Sayings

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. — George S. Patton

Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is:
First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward. — Martin Luther

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain

That Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying. — Maeve Binchy

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff. — Chloe Sevigny

She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred. — Ralph Peters

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too. — Spike Jonze

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter. — Terry Pratchett

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act. — Jen Kirkman

When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards. — Toba Beta

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. — Plato