Laki Ulo Quotes & Sayings

War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. — Ann Rinaldi

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin

The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord, just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness. — Watchman Nee

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable. — Errol Morris

On the Races of Our Continuum:
"First, you should understand that we are all The One's children and that means we are all family. As one of my parents liked to say, "One, two, or three caudal orifices, it really doesn't matter, for it still gets all the work done." I like to say that we do not all look alike, but we all think alike."
The Great Siblinghood, Tymorann Alphrontex (as translated by D. J. Kenny) — D.J. Kenny

We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate — Baratunde R. Thurston

I fold back the sheet, get carefully up, on silent bare feet, in my nightgown, go to the window, like a child, I want to see. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow. The sky is clear but hard to make out, because of the searchlight; but yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway. I want Luke here so badly. I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name, remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I — Margaret Atwood

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on — Langston Hughes

Even the most fanciful story contains nuggets of truth. As readers, our job is to mine them. — Michael Gunter

When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today. — Lee Ezell

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Back to the books. The world's largest bell was built in 1733 in Moscow, and weighed in at more than four hundred thousand pounds. It never rang - it was broken by fire before it could be struck. What a sad little story. All that work, all that planning, all those expectations - then nothing. Now it just sits there in Russia, a big metallic symbol of failure. I have a moment of silence for the silent bell. — A. J. Jacobs

All right Arthur?" said the wizard, nodding at Mr Weasley. "What've you got there, Bob?" asked Mr Weasley, looking that the box.
"We're not sure," said the wizard seriously. "We thought it was a bog standard chicken until it started breathing fire. — J.K. Rowling