Janissaries Were Quotes & Sayings

In the spirit of friendship, I must tell you that I am bitterly jealous of the time you spend in the Janissaries' company. I want you to stop training with them."
"And in the spirit of friendship, I must tell you that I do not care in the slightest about your petty jealousies. I am late for my training. — Kiersten White

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy. — John Kasich

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place. — Ricky Williams

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting. — L.M. Montgomery

A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else. — Rob Rienow

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. — Tim McGraw

Ebu Su'ud also held notably tough opinions against the Shi'ah Safavids in Iran, considering them to be rebels and infidels to be fought in war [6]. This is relevant, because after the death of Ebu Su'ud, the Janissaries would come under the official patronage of the Alevi-Bektashi Sufis in the 1590s [7] — Muhammad Dawud Currie

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. — Ambrose Bierce

It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual. — Teresa Heinz

But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . . — Stephen King

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! — John Piper

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well. — Midnight Blue

I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age as a form of the grossest immorality. — Oscar Wilde