Misulica Quotes & Sayings

Security has come from being successful. — Minnie Driver

I have no sense of humor about losing — Rafael Nadal

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before. — Aidan Chambers

How am I friends with them? Oh yeah, just smooshed together through life, and ended up sticking together. I guess I am stuck with them. Usually I would be happy about that. Right now, meh. — C.L. Foster

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun. — Teju Cole

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people. — Peter Buffett

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false — Tony Benn

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. — Felix Frankfurter

She sighed in appreciation and wrapped her hands around the cup. She took a sip and glanced at Braeden. "How did you know I like mocha?"
"Because you're a girl."
"Oh," she said and went back to her coffee. — Cambria Hebert

I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something. — Elizabeth Berg

If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder. — Hammurabi

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere. — Milan Kundera

Arran's grey-blue eyes opened and they were clear and bright. He smiled at Maxie. 'I love you, Mum,' he said quietly and he died in Maxie's arms. — Charlie Higson

So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power?
Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutation of ambition, one that may or may not translate into social activity? Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the seizure and exercise of power, and of course the more psychopathic, the more efficient: Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Sergeant Doe and the latest in the line of the unconscionably driven, our own lately departed General Sanni Abacha - all have proved that power, as long as you are sufficiently ruthless, amoral and manipulative, is within the grasp of even the mentally deficient. — Wole Soyinka