History Politics Historyofpower Quotes & Sayings

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Normative mind tends to be naive. — Toba Beta

Fiddlesticks!" Rall replied. "These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them."58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night of December 25, 1776; when Washington and his men crossed the Deleware.) — David Hackett Fischer

But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did. — Nicholas Sparks

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run. — Trent Franks

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against. — Geoffrey Household

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I guess the best thing you can do is just be there. You don't have to think her's right. But you do have to be there. — Jojo Moyes

She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything. — Ann Brashares

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. — Pearl S. Buck

But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
..Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. — John Keats

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts
or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. — Joseph Addison

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes. — Jon Meacham

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] — Ernesto Che Guevara

It's emotion. When you are watching a movie you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and you see butterflies flying in the background and then you suddenly hear scary movie music and it changes the whole thing. But if something sounds different it changes the movie. Music is the back drop of what you talk about. — Yung Joc