Motina Online Quotes & Sayings

Men ... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child ... — Mary Roberts Rinehart

From the late 1830s to the Second World War, China was bullied and humiliated on a vast scale. And it was more shocking for the Chinese because they had lived with the illusion of power and self-sufficiency for much longer than the Ottomans. 'Our country's civilization,' Liang Qichao pointed out in 1902, 'is the oldest in the world. Three thousand years ago, Europeans were living like beasts in the field, while our civilization, its characteristics pronounced, was already equivalent to theirs of the middle ages.
This wasn't just some cultural defensiveness. China could trace its culture back 4,000 years, and political unity to the third century BC. — Pankaj Mishra

If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you. — Kerry King

The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro. — Julius Streicher

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. — Mahatma Gandhi

My parents were my worst audience. — Richard Lewis

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that. — Jamie Cullum

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? — Steven Wright