La Libert De La Quotes & Sayings

I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked. — Lee Kuan Yew

The past informs the present. — Fennel Hudson

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York. — Nancy McKeon

The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts. — Leo Tolstoy

Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control. — Henri Nouwen

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand. — Dusty Springfield

My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman. — John Prescott

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working. — Stan Lee

Winning is an effect of trying. You have to want it badly enough to go through pain, discipline, and failure to find it. To confront it. To claim it. But most of all, you have to fight for it. Everything else - anything else - is absolute surrender — Chelsea Fine

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence. — Jennifer Nettles

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies. — Harold Bloom

Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own. — Debasish Mridha

My favorite urban flower, the baseball box score — Roger Angell