Koyyam Quotes & Sayings

The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored. — Samuel Adams

When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained. — Isak Dinesen

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort. — Steph Davis

When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees ... It was an out-of-body experience. — Goose Gossage

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. — George Bernard Shaw

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them. — William Carlos Williams

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word, he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone. — Walter De La Mare

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. — J. F. C. Fuller

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another. — H.L. Mencken

Smile. No one cares how you feel. — Stephin Merritt

A man who is born to be hanged can never be drowned. — Marguerite Kaye

People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used. — John Green

You are as valuable as what you carry in your mind and in your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo