Khaemwasets Quotes & Sayings

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand. — Daniel Handler

Consider that in 1800 Western powers claimed 55 percent but actually held approximately 35 percent of the earth's surface, and that by 1874 the proportion was 67 percent, a rate of increase of 83,000 square miles per year. By 1914, the annual rate had risen to an astonishing 240,000 square miles [per year], and Europe held a grand total of roughly 85 percent of the earth as colonies, protectorates, dependencies, dominions, and commonwealths. No other associated set of colonies in history was as large, none so totally dominated, none so unequal in power to the Western metropolis." Culture and Imperialism, pg. 8 — Edward Said

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years. — John Sculley

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter. — Ann Marie Buerkle

It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way. — Brittany Snow

We're Garde,' I say, correcting this billion-year-old godlike energy force, because what the hell, we've come this far. 'We're here for your help. — Pittacus Lore

Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate. — Jack Gantos

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. — Gwen Stefani

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat. — James Madison

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair. — Veronica Lake

Whatever the days are, evil or not, they made us who we are, and perhaps there's a reason for that. — H.L. Burke

I cannot conceive not writing. — Terry Pratchett