Matildasmeadow Quotes & Sayings

a compliment is like a kiss through a veil. — Victor Hugo

When it was all over
the centuries started
to roll by

and history was written
by those
with no stories

misery turned into myth
and figures of speech
played catalyst
to happiness — Banoo Zan

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art. — Javier Bardem

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules. — Mike Carey

He popped his jaw, trying to relax against a new onslaught of aggression. It wasn't as if he were the only one to suffer, he reminded himself. The other warriors had their own demons - literally and figuratively. Torin, of course, was keeper of Disease. Lucien was keeper of Death. Reyes, of Pain. Aeron, of Wrath. Paris, of Promiscuity. Why couldn't he have been given that last one? — Gena Showalter

May the Lord grant you a tender kind heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones September 23, 1779. He said this when his ship was on fire and sinking. — Steven Atwood

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery. — George Bernard Shaw

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. — Aleksandr Lebed