Higman Graphics Quotes & Sayings

You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks — Simon Holt

Rather than inserting more Marines and engineers to harden and defend the American Embassy - thus sending an unequivocal message that such an assault against American sovereign territory in the heart of Tehran would never be tolerated again - the bureaucrats back at the White House and State Department had panicked. They'd reduced the embassy's staff from nearly a thousand to barely sixty. The Pentagon had shown a similar lack of resolve. The number of U.S. military forces in-country had been drawn down from about ten thousand active-duty troops to almost none. The only reason Charlie had been sent in - especially as green as he was - was because he happened to be one of the few men in the entire U.S. diplomatic corps who was actually fluent in Farsi. None of the three CIA guys on site even spoke the language. — Joel C. Rosenberg

As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified. — Miranda J. Barrett

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid. — Andrew Bogut

It's odd how something you've dreamed of half your life looks different once you get inside. — Michelle Gable

The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful. — Goldy Moldavsky

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. — Meriwether Lewis