Michaelsen Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding! — Bane

Love is Not a Game It Is 100% Commitment — Ellen J. Barrier

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. — Boris Yeltsin

Matchsticks A Not Quite the Fairy Tale Short Story May Sage — Aimee Easterling

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. — Anthony Bourdain

Ignacio climbed into his lap and examined his face. It was a relief to be in a child's world, where kindness was the standard operating mode, where clarity was the order of the day, and adult posturing kept its distance. Hearings — Shanthi Sekaran

The Brotherhood's campaign to intimidate and silence officials in Washington who link Islam and terrorism is working brilliantly. The 9/11 Commission Report used the word jihad 126 times, Muslim 145 times, and Islam 322 times. A decade later, they have been virtually banished from official U.S. government documents. The FBI's Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon and the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy have zero mentions of jihad, Muslim, or Islam. Instead, they refer to "violent extremism" in general. — Glenn Beck

My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white. — Michael Dirda

mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I — Eric Weiner