Joseffy Magic Quotes & Sayings

The rising wave of nostalgia and an increasing interest in heritage sites and historic buildings is perhaps not only a sense of yearning for a lost Singapore, but also the recognition that neither 1959 nor 1965 marked Year One (...) In all the campaigns and features on Singapore's 50th anniversary that I've come across, the Kranji War Memorial was never mentioned. It just doesn't fit the slender narrative. That's such a shame because the cemetery is a fitting, dignified tribute to thousands of Singapore heroes, both local and foreign. — Neil Humphreys

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted. — Edward Abbey

Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people. — Gary Rohrmayer

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul. — Alexander Pope

An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then hoisting onto its back a new world-figure feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own. — Randall Jarrell

And what if, besides love, there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is already loathing, contempt, revulsion - what then? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. — Stewart Udall

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos