Habituado Em Quotes & Sayings

A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one party. — Karen Armstrong

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. — Brian Clough

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it. — Rachel Kushner

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. — Grover Norquist

I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes ... — William Butler Yeats

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship. — Black Kettle

Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all. — Walter Schloss

But decent motives don't always produce decent results. And the body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood." ~the dowager — Haruki Murakami

There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness. — Johnny Hunt

What do the only children do? — Ann Patchett

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right. — Marian Keyes

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. — Umberto Eco