Jean Bart World Quotes & Sayings

A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES — Thomas Gray

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. — Theodor Herzl

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. — Ann Veneman

The first thing that struck you about Claire's plate was its vast emptiness. Of course I'm well aware that, in the better restaurants, quality takes precedence over quantity, but there are voids and then there are voids. The void here, that part of the plate on which no food at all was present, had clearly been raised to a matter of principle.
It was as though the empty plate was challenging you to say something about it, to go to the open kitchen and demand an explanation. 'You wouldn't even dare!' the plate said, and laughed in your face. — Herman Koch

I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction. — Brian Lindstrom

Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space. — Jack Kerouac

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow. — Jay London

Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me. — Shannon Celebi

Some mornings it's just not worth it to chew through the leather straps. — Emo Philips

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you. — Lauren Zimmerman

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran

Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth. — Waite Hoyt

Your a member? I think at him incredulously.
He blinks in surprise that I am talking to him via brain. That it could be that easy, between us, when it's so hard with everyone else.
Yes. As of his morning.
And how does one become a member exactly?
You make a promise to serve the light. To fight for the side of good.
I thought they said they don't fight.
He gives me the mental equivalent of a shrug.
And that's what you did this morning?
Yes, he says unwaveringly. I took an oath.
And so the revelations keep on coming. — Cynthia Hand

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism. — Leonard Ravenhill