Llanuras Del Quotes & Sayings

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. — Steven Spielberg

We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything. — Carl Levin

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime. — Simen Agdestein

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. — Timothy Noah

Commander Lebedev wrote - 'After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral print apron and told her, " 'Look, Sveta, even though you are a pilot and cosmonaut, you are still a woman first. Would you please do us the honor of being our hostess tonight?' "
"Ouch," says Roth — Dan Simmons

I live what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. — Mother Antonia

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent. — Charles A. Beard

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. — Henry Mintzberg

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do. — Rory Cochrane

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. — Elliott Erwitt

Success is achieved in inches, not miles. — John C. Maxwell