Italian Phrases Words Mottos And Quotes & Sayings

Nothing like it had ever been seen in New York. Housetops were covered with "gazers"; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people. The total British armada now at anchor in a "long, thick cluster" off Staten Island numbered nearly four hundred ships large and small, seventy-three warships, including eight ships of the line, each mounting 50 guns or more. As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the eighteenth century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth from Britain or any nation. — David McCullough

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. — Theodor Haecker

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board. — Louise Bernikow

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars. — Adam Gopnik

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose. — Anna Kournikova

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. — Dejan Stojanovic

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows. — Jason Wu

JOSIAH FRANKLIN and ABIAH his wife, lie here interred. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty-five years. Without an estate, or any gainful employment, By constant labor and industry, with God's blessing, They maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren reputably. From this instance, reader, Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man; She, a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, In filial regard to their memory, Places this stone. J. — Benjamin Franklin

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. — Alan Watt

How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father? — G.A. Henty

Of course I'd feel butterflies when a guy who looked like that said something so swoon-worthy. — Rachel Hawkins

You have a life; make a success of it. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha