Mediafire Quotes & Sayings

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment. — James Hervey

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist. — Kelly Reilly

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy. — Thomas Paine

Back in Paris," he said, "I knew a girl who was so different, so daring, so ahead of her time that people mocked her until the day they found themselves imitating her. Do you know what she used to say?"
Belle shook her head.
She used to say, 'The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.'" Maurice paused for a moment, letting the worlds sink in. Then he added. "Behind your back. Never to catch up. — Elizabeth Rudnick

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people. — Mignon McLaughlin

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player. — John Wooden

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road. — Warren Buffett

Most games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

Do you want me to lick you again? — Alyssa Brugman

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. — Brad Listi

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury