Lichtenwalter Schoolhouse Quotes & Sayings

Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it. — Robert Kiyosaki

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union ... it would be a big mistake — Meles Zenawi

Life's a bitch," I said.
"And then you die," Larry finished for me. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I love the energy we create between us when we banter like this. It's the most intense sensation of pleasure, knowing he'll always have the perfect response ready. I've never known anyone like him; as addictive to talk to as he is to kiss. "Truth — Sally Thorne

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet. — Kabir Bedi

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer. — Nile Rodgers

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers. — Bram Cohen

Gribshin considered what he had just seen. He knew it was important. It belonged to the future, he was sure, but was it his future. He too was pleased by the sound the lock made as it closed: it was something predictive. In the echoing tintinnabulation of the lock's components colliding hard against each other were conjured the sonances of rifle shots and beyond them smoky images of milling crowds. The sounds and images vanished without revealing to Gribshin exactly what they promised. — Ken Kalfus

Valdivia's actions symbolize man's indefatigable thirst to take control of a place where he can exercise total authority. That phrase, attributed to Caesar, proclaiming he would rather be first-in-command in some humble Alpine village than second-in-command in Rome, is repeated less pompously, but no less effectively, in the epic campaign that is the conquest of Chile. If, in the moment the conquistador was facing death at the hands of tht invincible Araucanian Caupolican, he had not been overwhelmed with fury, like a hunted animal, I do not doubt that judging his life, Valdivia would have felt death was fully justified. He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural, and he had become the omnipotent ruler of a warrior nation. — Ernesto Che Guevara

When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful. — Terry Pratchett

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you. — Michelle Pfeiffer