Nosilci Quotes & Sayings

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience. — Leo Tolstoy

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Young women are now looking at me for cues. That's definitely been a responsibility. But I feel like I was ready to take on something like this because I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be afraid, and that's definitely what it's done for me. — Tatiana Maslany

The impression made upon them by the first view of a camel equipped and loaded for the desert. Custom, so fatal to other novelties, affects this feeling but little. At the end of long journeys with caravans, after years of residence with the Bedawin, the Western-born, wherever they may be, will stop and wait the passing of the stately brute. The charm is not in the figure, which not even love can make beautiful; nor in the movement, the noiseless stepping, or the broad careen. As is the kindness of the sea to a ship, so that of the desert to its creature. It clothes him with all its mysteries; — Lew Wallace

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. — Lawrence Ritter

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers. — Henry David Thoreau

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse. — Holly Bodger

If you have known someone your whole life, you can see them in the dark. — Antonia Michaelis

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?" — Aleksandra Mir

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible. — David Sanborn

It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. — Izaak Walton

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode. — Joss Whedon

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel - to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience. — Richelle E. Goodrich