Koirat Fi Quotes & Sayings

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. — Nellie Bly

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. — Noam Chomsky

My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high. — Andrew Solomon

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience. — Mira Nair

Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it. — Yip Man

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company. — Barbara Holland

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. — Martina Arroyo

A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth. — T.R. Reid

found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A — Arturo Perez-Reverte

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution. — Henry Clay

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people. — Phyllis Logan