Justi A Federal Amazonas Quotes & Sayings

How can I take crime shows seriously where the female detectives track killers in Louboutin heels? — Toni Morrison

The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know, — David McCullough

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror. — Madame De Stael

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. — Robert Ardrey

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?
till you and I came over to him? — Henry David Thoreau

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us. — Paul David Washer

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice ... — Amilcar Cabral

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. — Leonard Maltin

One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done. — Thomas Sowell

Today, the Power Elite is more geographically concentrated in specific areas. Economist Jamie Galbraith found that if you measured inequality across counties in the United States in the 1990s, half the rise occurred in 5 counties out of 3,150: New York, New York; King County, Washington; and San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Mateo in Northern California.24 — Christopher L. Hayes

declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives. — Stephen Mansfield

You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you. — Lisa Simpson