Madelina Horn Quotes & Sayings

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes never fall out! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I know that I am a black man in a white world ... I know that I never had it made. — Jackie Robinson

You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot. — Wladimir Klitschko

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself. — Freya Stark

I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam. — Diana Gabaldon

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' — Abigail Adams

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden? — Alfred Armand Montapert

In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going. — Lucinda Franks

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead? — Jackie Williams

I will say that I do gravitate more towards quirkier guys. I always date guys who wear glasses. — Jillian Rose Reed

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water. — Henry Hazlitt

In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time' and the former by 'But I say unto you.'
Since both the teachings of old time and Jesus' new teachings are predicated on the same profoundly mistaken views of human nature and of the world in general, it is unimportant for us here today to compare and contrast these teachings or to determine which is better or worse in some way or other. The point is that whether better or worse, in this way or that, both are lodged in an egregiously mistaken mythology
but in a mythology of enormous importance for us, because it is one of the wellsprings of Western culture. — Delos McKown

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. — Julie De Lespinasse

The oceans cover 65% of the globe's surface and, as there are up to 10 billion viruses per one litre of sea water, the whole ocean contains around 4 x 10 30 - enough, when laid side by side, to span 10 million light years. — Dorothy H. Crawford