Goree Island Quotes & Sayings

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ... — Ilka Chase

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it. — Oren Arnold

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other. — Ellen Gilchrist

I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you're going to like them, and they're not full of hate. — Cass Sunstein

If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target. — Charles Haynes

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create! — Taiye Selasi

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. — Clarence H. Burns

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline. — Matt Chandler

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. — James Clerk Maxwell

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. — Zeena Schreck

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats. — Niki Tsongas

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus